FashionBrowse the drop

The only clothing label that treats a dead company as a museum piece.

For people in and around finance, consulting, startups and tech who follow corporate history and get the inside joke.

Sample dropTee $60Crewneck $120Other pieces priced in line

A sample of one month. Meridian Fiber is a made-up company, used only to show the format. Every piece and picture below is a sample.

  • Sample off-white tee with a teal share-price line that climbs, then falls off the bottom hemSample

    Dark Fiber Tee

    $60

    Fiber boom, 1999 to 2001

    How it died: It laid cable faster than anyone could use it.

    Tee · Catalogue 01 of 06

  • Sample heather grey crewneck with a small embroidered ledger table, one row struck through in redSample

    Going Concern Crewneck

    $120

    Fiber boom, 1999 to 2001

    How it died: One footnote in the accounts, then no more accounts.

    Crewneck · Catalogue 02 of 06

  • Sample black tee with an amber stock-ticker strip that fades out to the rightSample

    Quiet Period Tee

    $60

    Ticker age, 2000

    How it died: The ticker went dark in the middle of a sentence.

    Tee · Catalogue 03 of 06

  • Sample navy crewneck with cream and teal stripes in the style of an old annual report coverSample

    Restated Crewneck

    $120

    Annual report era, 2001

    How it died: Every annual report needed a correction.

    Crewneck · Catalogue 04 of 06

  • Sample olive cap with an embroidered coil of teal cable, its end cutSample

    Delisted Cap

    Priced in line with the tee and crewneck

    Fiber boom, 1999 to 2001

    How it died: The cable was cut before the lights came on.

    Cap · Catalogue 05 of 06

  • Sample silk scarf printed like an engraved stock certificate with one corner torn awaySample

    Stock Certificate Scarf

    Priced in line with the tee and crewneck

    Paper shares, 1998

    How it died: The shares were printed on fine paper, then worth the paper.

    Scarf · Catalogue 06 of 06

Real clothing, priced like it.

One-time purchases through hosted checkout.

$60

Per tee

Designed as clothing first, with the company's look, era and downfall worked into the design.

$120

Per crewneck

Other pieces are priced in line with these two.

How a dead company becomes clothing

  1. Sample picture of a glass museum case holding an old desk phone, a framed certificate, an ID badge and annual reports

    Sample picture

    1. Pick the dead company

    One company a month. Its name has to be legally free to use: the trademark has lapsed, or the owner has licensed it to us.

  2. Sample picture of a black tee marked with chalk and a teal falling-line graphic, beside fabric swatches and sketches

    Sample picture

    2. Design it as clothing

    The founder, a designer, builds a small drop. The company's look, era and downfall go into the design, not a logo pasted on a tee.

  3. Sample picture of a folded grey crewneck and an off-white tee on a shelf, each with a paper catalogue tag

    Sample picture

    3. Catalogue how it died

    Each piece is catalogued with the story of how the company died, the way a museum labels what it keeps.

Fair questions

Only when the name is legally free to use: the trademark has lapsed, or the owner has licensed it to us.

No. Fashion is not the company. Each piece is an original design about a real company, made by our founder, a designer.

No. Pieces are designed as clothing first. The company's look, era and downfall are worked into the design itself.

Pieces are one-time purchases through hosted checkout. A tee is $60 and a crewneck is $120. Other pieces are priced in line.