Orobaro (from the Tagalog oro (gold) and baro (shirt)) is an archipelagic archive of fine vintage shirts and curiosities. The collection focuses on shirts and objects for gender-neutral, period-agnostic, and brand-agnostic sensibilities. Though certain labels do find their way into the collection, they sit side by side with unbranded, off-brand, and rare pieces spanning the early twentieth century through Y2K — an edit that as a whole embodies the common values of tactile quality, thoughtful simplicity, and stylistic versatility.
Adjacent to the edit, an open-edition collection of shirts adorned with found and hand-painted imagery — silk patches printed and sewn onto the shirt body. Following punk's logic of armoured empowerment through DIY means, and aligning with the pre-colonial Filipino practice of the anting-anting, each adornment is a means to adopt and fortify the found — a protective talisman and cultural signifier for the body that wears it.
