About Make Space
Wayward daughter, Airlia Neetly had forty thousand followers until the livestream incident, which involved a goat and what she maintains was a perfectly legitimate artistic statement. The internet disagreed for seventy-two hours then forgot entirely. The former preppie neither forgot nor apologized, which her former brand partners found exhausting and her mother found admirable.
She returned to the family depot with the focused intensity of someone who has decided the problem was never the work. Make Space is the result: everything chosen carefully, nothing admitting it. Shirts that whisper, shout, or pass as innocent souvenirs depending on who's looking. Airlia arranges it all with the calm conviction of someone who was right before and is prepared, without particular urgency, to be right again.
Dirk Neetly and his either wife, sister, or paramour, Oona Dank have spent the last two decades insinuating Neetlys, a curios company that operates out of wherever their van, sailboat, or temporary yurt happens to be parked that week. Since abandoning their conventional lives (which were, by most accounts, unconventional to begin with), they have printed shirts alongside 6 oceans, three disputed territories, and once, by accident, in a restricted military zone.
Dirk, a former freelance spice trader and self-taught bridge engineer, first got into the apparel business after trading a broken motorcycle for a crate of misprinted tank tops outside of Bogotá. Una, a certified hot air balloon mechanic and semi-professional dolphin whisperer, handles logistics, customer service, and bartering t-shirts for food in places where currency is considered “too mainstream.”
Their designs, inspired by obscure road signs, half-remembered proverbs, and things Dirk claims to have seen in a dream, have been worn by Himalayan yak herders, off-the-grid desert poets, and one very enthusiastic customs agent in Montenegro. They have never owned a house key, they refuse to acknowledge time zones, and they believe deeply in the power of a well-placed pocket.
Dirk Neetly and his either wife, sister, or paramour, Oona Dank have spent the last two decades insinuating Neetlys, a curios company that operates out of wherever their van, sailboat, or temporary yurt happens to be parked that week. Since abandoning their conventional lives (which were, by most accounts, unconventional to begin with), they have printed shirts alongside 6 oceans, three disputed territories, and once, by accident, in a restricted military zone.
Dirk, a former freelance spice trader and self-taught bridge engineer, first got into the apparel business after trading a broken motorcycle for a crate of misprinted tank tops outside of Bogotá. Una, a certified hot air balloon mechanic and semi-professional dolphin whisperer, handles logistics, customer service, and bartering t-shirts for food in places where currency is considered “too mainstream.”
Their designs, inspired by obscure road signs, half-remembered proverbs, and things Dirk claims to have seen in a dream, have been worn by Himalayan yak herders, off-the-grid desert poets, and one very enthusiastic customs agent in Montenegro. They have never owned a house key, they refuse to acknowledge time zones, and they believe deeply in the power of a well-placed pocket.