Unknown Union Empingated Midi Button-Up — Cotton Spandex

A midi-length button-up in a cotton spandex blend, carrying Carlos Luna's painting “Empingated” — a man in a jungle of lived experience, facing his own mortality.

Highlights

• ✓Cotton spandex blend. Breathable like cotton with just enough give to move in, and it comes back to shape instead of sitting out of it.
• ✓Luna's artwork, taken directly. Death reaches out to embrace the figure while he hides a knife behind his back — the whole argument of the painting, worn at midi length.
• ✓“La Vida” and “La Muerte”. Life and death named on the same garment, the cycle Luna returns to again and again. The anglicised Cuban expletive “Pinga” sits in there too, for the pitch of the fight.
• ✓Midi length, button through. Long enough to wear open over trousers as a layer, or closed on its own.
• ✓Numeric sizing, 1 through 5. Pick your size from the run on the product page.

A midi button-up is the most useful shape in a wardrobe for exactly this reason: closed it is the outfit, open it is the jacket. With artwork this loud on the back, open over black is the easy answer.

Wash it cool — heat is what kills the stretch in an elastane blend. The same painting runs on the Empingated Knit Crop. More in Women's Tops and Women.