04/23/2026
Hello world,
If you’re reading this, you’re part of the circle now.
pull up a crate. mind the scraps on the floor.
Things have been shifting in the workshop. Not broken, just rearranged. like when a goblin tears apart a perfectly functional machine just to rebuild it better, stranger, more alive.
Over the past months, Crisiswear has been in motion:
Owner/Designer Matthew relocated the workshop to Austin, TX, moving the entire operation and rebuilding it from the ground up.
He’s still in transition...
Not all of the studio has made it here yet, and we haven’t been able to return to Chicago to retrieve the rest.
So the work continues, but a little scrappier.
a little more improvised.
At the same time, we’ve been reworking the bones of the operation, untangling systems that weren’t built to last.
All of it with one goal...
To make a space where Matthew can keep doing what he does without burning himself into the ground to do it.
Because here’s the truth, plainly:
every piece you’ve ever worn from Crisiswear has passed through one set of hands.
Cut. stitched. reworked. sometimes argued with. sometimes remade entirely.
There’s no hidden factory. no ghost team.
just one artist, deep in it.
(and occasionally me, the little green critter that crawls out from the logistics cave to help hold things together.)
On time (or… the goblin concept of it)
If you’re waiting on an order:
we see you. we appreciate you. we are not ignoring you.
But time here doesn’t move like fast fashion time.
it moves like “this seam needs to be right or it gets redone” time.
It moves like:
Materials sourced intentionally
Patterns adjusted mid-build
Pieces made to actually last
So yes, wait times exist. sometimes longer than either of us would like.
But nothing leaves the workshop half formed.
What we’ve been building in the dark
While things have been quiet on the outside, something else has been taking shape.
Geist-Projekt has been waking up.
This is where things get a little more feral:
Heavier materials
More leather
More experimental silhouettes
Less compromise, more instinct
It’s not a departure. it’s an expansion.
A place to push the edges of Crisiswear
