About ProjectThe idea to paint on t-shirts first came to me about four years ago. I did a few shirts and later gave them away as presents to friends. As there were no people around me to share my enthusiasm, and as I had no idea of how many people would like to wear hand-painted clothes and whoever would buy them, it did not grow into a business at the time. A few months ago, I presented another t-shirt to my friend Svenya, who said 'wow, why haven't you done this before'. And so now, we are a company of friends overtaken by the idea. There are three of us: I paint the unique designs on t-shirts, while Andrei and Svenya sort out the business organisation and do the photo shooting in between their coffees and cigarettes. We had to begin our work with something, so we invited some of our friends over the Internet to participate in a special project - they gave us their shirts, I painted them and later we did promotional photo shoots of them wearing the HWM clothes. You can see the outcome of this project on the Gallery page of our site. And so, we offer you a unique product - t-shirts with hand painting on them. None of the designs is ever repeated, and you can be sure that your t shirt is the only of its kind in the world! (Creating a new design for every shirt is somewhat difficult, yet great fun for me!) And I like to classify the style of these paintings as 'Hooligan Baroque'. Right now, as I am typing this, we argue with Andrei if what we offer is 'everyday clothing' or not. I believe it is. At least I hope that any HWM item you buy is loved, and that you like to wear it as often as possible. I have had beautiful things that I want to wear every day, no matter if there is a 'special occasion' or not. I create things that I would like to wear myself, but at the same time they are thing one cannot buy in a store. That is why I started HWM. |
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