Equator T Shirt
Ultralight. And built to keep you cool in the heat.
- Made from ultrasoft Pima cotton
- Lightweight t shirt weighing 130 grams
- Highly breathable and cooling
Home to some of the hottest and most humid places on the planet, the equator carves through dense tropical jungles, warm seas, and crowded cities. Instead of seasons or temperature changes you’re more likely to be hit by a wall of heat, sun, rain and humidity. But as global temperatures rise and climate zones shift, designing clothing for the equator is like designing for our future.
So our Equator gear is built to keep you comfortable in all 40,000km of one of the most extreme environments we currently inhabit, and one that’s set to grow. The Equator T Shirt is made from one of the lightest and softest fabrics on the planet – 100% Pima cotton. The silk-like fibres of Pima cotton are much longer and stronger than normal cotton, so they make a much softer, smoother, and more durable t shirt.
As temperatures rise, you’ll find it’s highly breathable, lightweight, fast drying and cooling next to your skin.
DNA Sweatshorts
Coloured with a genetically engineered blue made from DNA.

Technical Details

You’ve already got about 16 billion kilometres of DNA inside you. In case that’s not quite enough, you might like some DNA Sweatshorts.
A quick recap on what DNA is exactly
DNA is the biological molecule that contains the genetic code an organism needs to develop, survive and reproduce. It is found in most cells of every organism. The differences in DNA are why one person has blue eyes rather than brown, why giraffes have long necks and why you’ll find more than a thousand different varieties of mango in India. Every human cell contains around 6 feet of DNA. With around 10 trillion cells inside each human, that means each person has around 60 trillion feet, or 16 billion kilometres of DNA inside them.

DNA doesn’t just make us, us. It also makes many of the colours we see in the natural world.


A step by step guide to making clothes with DNA
The first step is selecting the colour you want that exists in nature. Luckily you’ll find them in one of the world’s open-source biomolecular databases – like the Universal Protein Resource in Switzerland, or GenBank in Maryland which houses a collection of sequences for 300,000+ organisms. Starting life in the 1980s, today they look after sequences for species from around the world – from plants and animals, to insects and microbes – and their libraries are doubling roughly every 18 months.




Implanting the DNA into a bacterial cell
Next comes the fun bit, as you’ll need to imagine a microbiologist with some rubber gloves, a microscope, and a big needle. Because we then implant the DNA sequence of the indigoid-producing enzyme into a microorganism – in this case it’s a single bacterial cell in a petri dish which self-replicates every 20 minutes. And as it replicates, it produces more and more indigo pigment.


From a petri dish to a high-tech brewery
To make enough colour to dye clothes we obviously need more than just a petri dish of indigo. So we send our genetically engineered microorganisms to RDD, a cutting-edge dyehouse in Portugal. Here they’re grown in the same way you’d brew beer – through fermentation. The cells are added to a fermentation machine with water, sugar, yeast and plant waste. The more you feed them, the more they grow. And by doubling every 20 minutes they quickly create enough liquid to start dyeing the shorts.

Dyed in a giant bath of DNA dye
To dye our DNA Sweatshorts, we submerge it in the bacterial soup we’ve brewed up. The bacteria latch onto the surface of the sweatshorts and release their pigment into the fibres of the material to colour it.




When we first started making clothing, the idea of getting to work with DNA was as improbable and far off as working with single layer graphene, vantablack, or kryptonite.


Size + Fit
The DNA Sweatshorts are designed with a regular fit.
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits waist | 71 - 76 | 76 - 81 | 81 - 86 | 86 - 91 | 91 - 96 | 96 - 101 |
Outside length | 46 | 47.5 | 49 | 50.5 | 52 | 53.5 |
Inseam length | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits waist | 28 - 30 | 30 - 32 | 32 - 34 | 34 - 36 | 36 - 38 | 38 - 40 |
Outside length | 18.1 | 18.7 | 19.2 | 19.9 | 20.4 | 21 |
Inseam length | 6.3 | 6.7 | 7 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 8.3 |