Nala.

She locks the studio door, checks the padlock twice, and heads down Fox Street. The asphalt glistens if it's rained — in Johannesburg summer storms fall fast and hard, and by two in the morning only the steam rising from the ground is left. The Maboneng buildings are converted industrial: exposed brick, metal staircases, gallery signs that at this hour are closed and dark.

The shisa nyama owner at the corner keeps the same cut for her. If she doesn't show two nights in a row, he sends a WhatsApp. "Alive?" "Alive." That's all they need. Nala crosses toward Jeppestown, where the streetlights work half the time and the street has a different sound: less tourist, more residential, a dog behind a fence, gospel music from an upstairs flat. If the night is clear she goes up through Bez Valley, where the asphalt breaks up and the sky opens a little more.

No headphones. That matters. She listens to the city the way she used to listen to the Limpopo countryside when she was eight and Koko would take her to the edge of the veld with a flashlight. The animals have changed — jackals to cars, hyraxes to load-shedding generators — but the habit of hearing without a filter stays. The walk lasts forty minutes to an hour. She comes back via Main Street, goes upstairs, takes her boots off, leaves the spike collar on. By five in the morning she's asleep. At two in the afternoon she gets up. The aardwolf is nocturnal. Nala is too.

The t-shirt you're looking at doesn't know any of this. It's a cotton garment with a printed portrait. But what it's wearing is the portrait of someone who lives this way: at night, on foot, hands stained with ink and a head full of geometric patterns that tomorrow will be dotwork in someone's skin.

The all-over print means Nala's portrait covers the whole t-shirt, not just the chest. The details of the studded jacket — each metal pyramid, the washed denim, the pink hood — are fully visible, uncut. The sublimation technique bonds the color to the fabric instead of depositing it on top, so it doesn't crack or flake with washing.

For sizing and fit, the **Fabric, fit and construction** tab has the cut specs and composition. If you're between two sizes, the **Size guide** has the table with measurements in centimeters.