CZT [CITI-ZEN-THEORY]

As a product of the 80’s and 90’s, shaped by skateboarding as a passion and way of life, a youth frolicking dangerously to the soundtrack of DC’s Hardcore and Go-Go music scenes, with early parental influences relating to architecture, music, and fine art, while armed with a gifted copy of “Clothes and the Man” by Alan Flusser, the future was virtually predestined for what would eventually become a deep appreciation for concepts of style and design. Consumed with a general inclination for art, ushered by varied notions of form and composition—notably an admiration for contemporary Grafitti art, the culture of which having been embraced as a teenager—daily life became a study of all things aesthetically intriguing and visually captivating, particularly in the area of fashion, high and low. CZT represents a sincere outpouring of inspiration as has culminated from this set of variables, along with the immeasurable ways in which they have molded the line’s unique point of view, and defined the form in which its expression takes shape.