FUTILISM

Over the course of two months filled with endless peer feedback, re-editing, color and material testing, I’m happy to finally present FUTILISM and FUTILISM_invert to all of you who seem to have enjoyed what I made in the past few years. I’d like to send all the love I could give to every special person who has wholeheartedly supported this imperfect process of mine from scratch to the finalized sample. None of this could have been made concrete without you. You know who you are.

This shirt is made up of my past experiments and assignments and random moments. It’ll be incredibly exciting if any of you decides to look long enough and discover where each segment comes from. The text is an excerpt from the manifesto I wrote for Central European Cinema within the Context of World Cinema during my time at FAMU Prague, in which I come up with an avant-garde movement of my own called Futilism that revolves around young people who either feel too big or too small for this world. My invented term “Futilism” derives from the adjective “futile,” meaning incapable of producing any useful result; ineffectual—the hollow emotional state I easily fall into once in a while since adulthood started. I remember sitting with my favorites in a fantastic Italian place near our Sokolská apartment on a Sunday morning and having such a good conversation on this paper, which I absolutely felt both passionate and anxious about.