10 Shirts, 10 Cities: The Architectural Inspired Travel Wardrobe

Vienna’s Secessionist movement comes alive in the Regalia shirt. Golden-brown patterns recall Klimt’s mosaics and Otto Wagner’s clean yet ornate facades. Refined and decorative, never excessive. Made entirely of viscose, resulting in an airy, silky soft feel.

Oversized florals and tactile terry texture reminds me of the lush courtyards of Marrakech. The earthy green feels tied to riad gardens, while the pattern reflects the blossoming geometry of Moroccan tiles.

Jaipur is called the Pink City, but its architecture is more than colour. The Mixset Rocco shirt, with its vertical patchwork of different patterns from spring/summer 2025, mirrors the repetition of arches and jali screens in Rajput palaces. In Jaipur, geometry is never sterile but alive with texture and ornament, and I believe the shirt reflects that vitality.

Blue and white stripes align with Amalfi’s seaside architecture, striped awnings, tiled terraces, and cliffside villas. The Havana shirt mirrors the coastlines and the geometry of sunlit facades.

I believe the ecru Girona shirt captures the simplicity, bright colored Neoclassical vibe of Stockholm, my home city, while being minimalist and contemporary.

São Paulo is a city built in concrete, its skyline shaped by Brutalism and the restless hand of Oscar Niemeyer. The graphics reminds me of Niemeyer’s Copan buildings and the sprawling murals of street artists like Os Gêmeos, who turned the city into a living canvas. In São Paulo, architecture really absorbs politics and improvisation, making it dynamic, just like the Urbano shirt.

Soft pink tones with repeated motifs align with Lisbon’s azulejos. The shirt remembers me of walking through Alfama, where pink light hits tiled facades and cobblestones reflect the sun.

Loose, hand-drawn motifs recall Havana’s worn-yet-grand facades. Domes, shutters, and peeling pastels are reflected in the shirt’s nostalgic illustrations, as if Havana itself had been sketched onto fabric.

Mexico City is a collage of colour, scale, and history. The Flower Shop Shirt, with its graffiti-like motifs, channels the same abundance found in Luis Barragán’s modernist pastels and Diego Rivera’s monumental murals. In a city where pre-Hispanic ruins sit beside brutalist concrete and Art Deco facades, architecture becomes an act of storytelling.

Washed-out blue tones with black doodles makes this shirt resemble Naples since it mirrors the city’s graffiti-covered alleys, Renaissance domes, and the deep Mediterranean blues of the Bay of Naples.