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‘From farm/fieldwork to fabric,’ the Sabotage X Gentle Artefacts capsule collection is an original output of a highly unique collaboration, premised a fashion designer and street photographer conducting ethnographic fieldwork with craft-scale tea farmers in Wazuka, Kyoto, Japan.
Original art by Street Dreams Magazine, Tokyo photographer, Takeshi Hayakawa direct to garment printed on back, shot on site at Kyoto Obubu Farms in January, 2025 for fieldwork for the Sabotage X Gentle_Artefacts collaboration—and portraying Obubu’s majestic high-mountain tea fields in Wazuka, Japan. A staple of the Sabotage X Gentle Artefacts ‘Matcha Psycho’ collaboration, the piece incorporates the iconography that define the collection—’Matcha Psycho,’ ‘Sencha Maniac,’ the green smiley logo, ‘International Farmcore Maniacs,’ and the Kanji character for ‘cha,’ meaning tea in Japanese,’ which designer Mark Ong (Mr. Sabotage) cheekily adapted from Obubu Farm’s own branding.
Zoom in on the center of the photograph to see a group that includes Mark Ong, the co-founders of Gentle Artefacts, their designer, Matsu (Japanese tea farmer and tea master).
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100% cotton (slub jersey 300 GSM) in black.
Ribbed crew neck and cuffs.
Direct to garment dye photo print.
Contrastive white top stitching at cuffs, collar, and shoulder.
Machine wash cold or cool. Turn inside out to wash. Hand wash recommended to sustain integrity of the photo print.
Do not tumble dry. Lay flat to dry. Cool iron.
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Slight oversized, but fits true to size. Take your usual size. If between sizes, consider taking one size down.
