One full calendar year before any collection comes out, Ardith (Co-Founder & Chief Designer) meticulously hangs a beautiful board of curated imagery in the middle of Bandit HQ for all to soak in. Over the course of the months to follow, Ardith and team sketch and color into their ideas for new product silhouettes inspired by the imagery on the wall. In the mood board below, you'll get a sense for some of the palette, shapes, patterns, fonts, and constructions that will appear in our upcoming Spring 2025 Collection.
Every patented Ardith mood board is accompanied by a poetic expression of what inspired her thinking for a given collection, always inspired by where the runner may metaphysically be as they exit one season and enter into another.
Without further adieu...
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Begin again, a work in process
Finding mental clarity through the looking glass
Seeing both a world both recognizable and yet turned inside out
Understanding that no problem can be solved
from the same level of consciousness that created it
New ideas, expanding off the edge of the canvas
Growth and overgrowth
Finding the rhythmic motion of running,
synchronizing breath with stride
The opportunity to integrate mind, body, and spirit in perfect harmony,
tapping into a multi-sensory experience
A sense of flow and fluidity,
stepping into a more expansive version of oneself
As color shifts, shades are transformed by luminous intensity,
tempered by neutral tones and punctuated by subtle twists of typical spring colors.
The controlled restraint of opalescent tints symbolize softness and light
with an enhancing, illuminating effect.
Light infuses the palette suggesting a call for clarity inspiring a play on transparency and opacity
Grounded in foundational greens ranging from desaturated & dry to
deep saturation, tethering the palette back to the earth
You'll recognize a similar style font...
Keep an eye out for this enveloping construction...
Print inspired by this gradient...
This color and the idea of cropped silhouette shows up for our first women's performance tee.
