Director Mohammad Gorjestani of Even\/Odd Studio has worked with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office on a new capsule collection of tees. Produced under The Adachi Project, which both sides co-founded together, the initiative honors the legacy of the late San Francisco Public Defender, Jeff Adachi, and spotlights stories of people and communities that have been affected by systemic injustices within the legal system.<\/p>\n
“Defender as a platform aims is to place the San Francisco Public Defender and its work and purpose into culture through art and storytelling,” Gorjestani tells Hypebeast. “As a medium, streetwear in it’s purist form is a proletariat canvas, born from subcultures that challenge the status quo, rooted in many of the same community-based values that the Public Defender is the ultimate vanguard of. This collaboration isn’t what you expect when you think of partnerships with a Public Defender’s Office, and that’s exactly the point. We’re doing something different.”<\/p>\n