About
THE ORBANE COLLECTIVE
The Tags that are attached to our garments say it all, we are The Orbane Collective and our designs represent the collective ideas of individual thinkers.
The Orbane collective is a blend of different creative styles, consisting of clothing designers, graphic designers, photographers, fine and street artists Putting together our idea’s we have designed streetwear as we see it baggy, colourful and fresh.
We are of the hip-hop generation as a result we have taken the fifth element of hip-hop which is the clothing, and added portions of the other 4 elements M-Cing, D-jing, B-boying and most of all the graf. But we have not stopped there we fused into this process our natural talents of photography, art, and how our clothes blend with our (influences) instincts and the environment.
The orbane collective was formed as a loose frame work of individuals with different creative hobbies, in 2002 founding members of the collective decided to blend their hobbies of clothing design fine-art and street photography within the frame work of a set of clothing designs, and in January 2003 the first orbane t-shirt was produced. The last one and a half years have seen us refining and developing both the product and the business strategy and as a result we have produced our own unique vision of streetwear, that we anticipate will capture a feeling of what is happening in the streets and will echo the rhythm and vibrancy that is hip-hop, reggae, UK garage and African rhymes.
The journey so far has seen us launch one range on the debut of our clothing line, this consists a set of t-shirts primarily with various elements of the Orbane diversity logo, Which shows a distinctive style that is not just colour co-ordinated, but which aims to acquaint you with what will be a standard trend with this label, style and quality. So pop the tag put on an Orbane and wear your style with attitude.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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