Dolma.

There's an hour when Dolma has nothing left to give, and it's noon: when the sun beats down, her eyes shut wherever she is and she takes a nap. At dusk, on the other hand, when the mist rises, she wakes fully and heads out. Her day is organized around those two lights, not around anyone else's clock. The red panda is a crepuscular animal, one of those that move at dawn and dusk and sleep through the midday heat; a sweatshirt suits exactly that mood of quiet hours, unhurried, when you feel like being comfortable and answering to no one.

I created the portrait head-on and with no background to distract: she leads and the garment goes along. In her story, Dolma is a girl from the hills of Darjeeling who looks for no noise and no rush; her quiet spell when the light goes down is enough for her. That calm of hers is what a sweatshirt like this keeps warm: the kind you pull on, make no plans, and let the day loosen. If you take a liking to this red panda, there's more of her in her story, and I have more pieces in the rest of the collection.