BUILT ON PRINCIPLE
DROP 001 is a heavyweight oversized T-shirt. On paper that is a simple object. The reason it took as long as it did is that almost nothing about it was chose...
The written layer of WITHOUTSTANDING
The Record
The words are on the record. The statement is on the garment. Founder letters and the thinking behind DROP 001 — not a content feed.
WHY DROP 001 EXISTS
There is a version of you that is always waiting for one more sign. One more cosign, one more good month, one more person to say it out loud so you don't hav...
WITHOUTSTANDING: The First Drop, The Risk, And The Reason Behind It
I don't think clothing fixes anyone. A T-shirt won't change your life. A logo won't make you confident. A brand won't give you identity if you don't already ...
THE FIRST FOUR STATEMENTS
They are not slogans. Slogans are written to be liked. These were written to be lived with, which is a different and less comfortable job. Each one sits on t...
The Quiet Prison of Needing Approval
There are few prisons in this world so well decorated as the prison of needing approval. Its bars are not made of iron, nor are its doors locked by any visib...
Everyone Wants You to Fit In. That’s How You Disappear.
Most of us are dragged onto its stage before we even know there is an audience. A man is told he must go to the party, though his bones are tired and his sou...
Work While Your Body Still Forgives You
There is a certain age in life when the body is still willing to forgive you. It forgives the long days, the early mornings, the late nights, the heavy legs,...
Pressure Is the Fire That Makes You Shine
There are some people who wish life would arrive like a gentle morning, with no storm in the sky, no clock upon the wall, no tiredness in the body, and no de...
When Life Breaks You From Every Side
There are seasons in a man's life when the whole world appears to have conspired against him; when the morning does not arrive like a promise, but like anoth...
The Art of Detachment: Why Letting Go Helps You Win in Life
Detachment is one of the hardest disciplines a person can learn, because human beings naturally become attached to emotions, people, outcomes, comfort, memor...
Dress Like Yourself Before the World Tells You Who to Be
There is a strange power in getting dressed properly. Not because clothes make you better than anyone else, but because they change the way you meet yourself...
The Tragedy of Living the Same Life Forever
There comes a point when life begins to feel less like living and more like being carried through the same narrow street every day, past the same doors, unde...