Moise Emquies was a law school graduate waiting for the results of his California bar exam, when his friend invited him to pass the…
Moise Emquies was a law school graduate waiting for the results of his California bar exam, when his friend invited him to pass the time by designing a T-shirt for her clothing shop. He threw himself into the project, quickly educating himself on textiles, in search of the perfect rayon T-shirt on which to put his design. Splendid is the culmination of Emquies' tireless search to find the softest fabric and most colour-absorbing yarns in the world, in order to create the ultimate T-shirt. After an exhaustive ten-year search, he finally discovered the right combination: 50% supima cotton (a luxurious cotton that gives the fabric body) and 50% micro modal (a form of rayon that is super-soft and absorbs dyes deeply). It was then that Emquies finally decided on a name for his new T-shirt collection: Splendid.