Why We Distress the Design, Not the Garment

You might notice something about our prints.

The ink doesn’t always fill the lines. The edges fade. The artwork looks like it’s been photocopied, forgotten in a drawer, or rained on during a night that got out of hand.

That’s intentional.

At A Bon Rendre, we don’t design for polish. We design for patina.

Our aesthetic lives in the in-between—where old race posters yellow on garage walls, where government-issued insignia get bootlegged, where cigarette ads fade into wallpaper in bars no one remembers the name of.

We distress the design, not the fabric. Because a shirt should wear in, not wear out. You’ll never find us pre-ripping cotton or pretending a shirt’s been through something it hasn’t. But we’ll absolutely make it look like the print survived three lifetimes before landing on your chest.

There’s something poetic about imperfection.
Something honest about letting time show.
Our designs are meant to look like they’ve seen something.

Because the best stories aren’t printed in bold.
They’re smudged.
They’re torn.
They’re half-remembered.

And that’s what makes them worth wearing.