Narcissus Drowned Bloom Noir Tee — White

Half-man, half-bloom, already gone. This is the tee you reach for when your wardrobe needs to say something.

The artwork stops people. After an antique engraving — an old master's line, not a generated image — it depicts Narcissus face-down in black still water, his body mid-dissolution into a tangle of water-lilies and dark reeds. One arm is still human, flung wide. The other has already become stem and petal. Beneath him, where his reflection should be, a skull stares back, garlanded with open blooms. The figure sits high and large on the chest, its lower edge breaking apart into ink drips and root-like scratches, trailing into vast black negative space — with a small two-line lockup in widely-spaced small capitals set far below, like a caption on a museum print. The whole thing is rendered in a single bone-cream ink on the vintage white ground: pure monochrome, dense textured halftone, heavy and graphic and quietly unsettling.

On the garment itself, the vintage white base gives the cream ink room to breathe, ageing the whole thing back toward its source material. The fit is unisex — relaxed through the shoulder and chest without being boxy — and the soft heavyweight cotton has that broken-in weight that holds its shape wash after wash.

Perfect for:

• Anchoring a dark academia or gothic layered look — worn under an open overshirt or structured blazer

• Your rotation of go-to black-and-white pieces that work with everything and still feel like a statement

• The person in your life who reads mythology, collects art prints, and dresses accordingly

• A gift for him, for her, for anyone whose aesthetic runs toward ink, bone, and botanical darkness

The details:

Garment colour: Vintage White

Ink: Monochrome cream/bone — no colour in the artwork

Fit: Unisex relaxed

Care: Machine wash cold, inside out, low tumble dry

Add it to your basket before this run is gone — pieces like this don't sit long.

After “Winter Basket: Narcissus, Camellia, and Wax Plum”, 1700–1750 — The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0).

• Made to order — made fresh just for you
• A one-of-a-kind piece you won't find in big-box stores