Skip to main content

Equator Shirt

Made with a rare and ultra lightweight silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta.

$295$8870% off

Model is 6ft 4 / 193cm with a 42 inch / 107cm chest, and wears size XL.

  • Ultra lightweight weighing 200 grams
  • Made with silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta
  • Advanced ventilation system with 18 concealed air vents

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 the Equator Shirt is built to keep you comfortable in all 40,000km of one of the most extreme environments we currently inhabit. The shirt starts with one of the lightest and softest fabrics on the planet, a rare, silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta. We then turned this into a phenomenally lightweight technical shirt by adding stretch, strength and UV protection. And with every detail designed to keep you cool, we engineered the shirt with the most advanced ventilation system we’ve ever made – 18 concealed air vents built with laser cutting and super soft Italian mesh that work together like built-in air-con.

Black Algae Dyed T Shirt

Made with seaweed from Icelandic fjords, and the world’s first black algae dye.

$195

Technical Details

Material made in Portugal: 80% organic cotton, 20% SeaCell
T shirt garment dyed with black algae dye
Soft and breathable
T shirt weighs 175 grams
Material weighs 150g/m2
Machine wash inside out at 30°C
Constructed in Portugal
01 02

Turning algae into dye took 5 years of R&D

To create a black algae dye, each individual particle in the pigment needs to be microscopically small, otherwise the t shirt’s fibres won’t absorb them. So Living Ink have spent 5 years in R&D working on how to reduce the size of the black algae particles to an average of 1 micron. This breakthrough creates a sustainable alternative to dyeing clothing using traditional carbon-black based dyes, and with a clear pathway for scaling up.

Our intensive R&D process didn't stop with the dye

We carried out 6 months of lab tests to successfully dye our t shirt, trying different fabrics, dyeing temperatures, and pigment concentrations, before finding the perfect combination.

Size + Fit

The Black Algae T Shirt is designed with a regular fit.

SizeXSSMLXLXXLXXXL
Fits chest83 - 9091 - 9899 - 106107 - 114115 - 122123 - 130131 - 138
Fits waist71 - 7676 - 8181 - 8686 - 9191 - 9696 - 101102 - 107
SizeXSSMLXLXXLXXXL
Fits chest33 - 3636 - 3939 - 4242 - 4545 - 4848 - 5151 - 54
Fits waist28 - 3030 - 3232 - 3434 - 3636 - 3838 - 4040 - 42