A studio t-shirt
Some garments come with geography and this is one of them. Yara mixes in a room with the blind down at 19 °C while outside the city is at 32 °C and dropping toward the early hours. Walking out into the heat in a light garment that's held up hours of air conditioning is part of her day. Yago Partal chose organic cotton for the Animal Kinhood t-shirts precisely for this reason: a fiber that handles the mixing room and the Amazonian street without asking permission.
The white ribbed-knit sweater Yara wears in the portrait is her uniform. She buys them three at a time, all the same, with a faint coffee stain on the right cuff that she doesn't remove. The t-shirt we're talking about here isn't that sweater — it's plain knit rather than ribbed — but it shares color and function: a white or light-colored garment, easy to combine, made to wear for hours without thinking about it. The 180 g/m² cotton breathes in Manaus humidity in April, which is the humidity of many places, and doesn't turn into a rag at the fifth wash.







