{"product_id":"nala-lobo-de-tierra-camiseta-de-impresion-integral-hombre","title":"Nala · Aardwolf · Men's t-shirt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do at two in the morning when the rest of the city is asleep? Nala walks Johannesburg with the studded jacket and loose thoughts. This men's all-over print t-shirt carries her aardwolf portrait on cotton that holds up through the night and whatever comes after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Nala men's t-shirt carries the portrait of an aardwolf who tattoos blackwork in Maboneng and walks Johannesburg when everyone else is sleeping. All-over print across the entire surface, no white borders, no dead zones. The portrait of Nala — studded jacket, pink hoodie showing underneath — covers the fabric from edge to edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the real story starts at two in the morning, when Nala leaves the studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe locks the studio door, checks the padlock twice, and heads down Fox Street. The asphalt glistens if it's rained — in Johannesburg summer storms fall fast and hard, and by two in the morning only the steam rising from the ground is left. The Maboneng buildings are converted industrial: exposed brick, metal staircases, gallery signs that at this hour are closed and dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shisa nyama owner at the corner keeps the same cut for her. If she doesn't show two nights in a row, he sends a WhatsApp. \"Alive?\" \"Alive.\" That's all they need. Nala crosses toward Jeppestown, where the streetlights work half the time and the street has a different sound: less tourist, more residential, a dog behind a fence, gospel music from an upstairs flat. If the night is clear she goes up through Bez Valley, where the asphalt breaks up and the sky opens a little more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo headphones. That matters. She listens to the city the way she used to listen to the Limpopo countryside when she was eight and Koko would take her to the edge of the veld with a flashlight. The animals have changed — jackals to cars, hyraxes to load-shedding generators — but the habit of hearing without a filter stays. The walk lasts forty minutes to an hour. She comes back via Main Street, goes upstairs, takes her boots off, leaves the spike collar on. By five in the morning she's asleep. At two in the afternoon she gets up. The aardwolf is nocturnal. Nala is too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe walks aren't meditation or ritual. They're inertia: she's spent her whole life sleeping badly and walking at night, and at this point it's the only time of day when her head goes quiet enough to stop thinking about the lease that's up in December, the call she owes her mother, the missing stud on the left shoulder of the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd then there's the map. On the wall of the studio, next to the drawing table, there's a hand-drawn route map of the night walks. Marker lines on brown paper, marked with dates and crosses. The crosses are places she stopped: a new piece of graffiti, a cat, a window with light on at three. The map grows slowly. Nobody has seen it except her and the ceramicist who has a studio two doors down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe t-shirt you're looking at doesn't know any of this. It's a cotton garment with a printed portrait. But what it's wearing is the portrait of someone who lives this way: at night, on foot, hands stained with ink and a head full of geometric patterns that tomorrow will be dotwork in someone's skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe all-over print means Nala's portrait covers the whole t-shirt, not just the chest. The details of the studded jacket — each metal pyramid, the washed denim, the pink hood — are fully visible, uncut. The sublimation technique bonds the color to the fabric instead of depositing it on top, so it doesn't crack or flake with washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor sizing and fit, the **Fabric, fit and construction** tab has the cut specs and composition. If you're between two sizes, the **Size guide** has the table with measurements in centimeters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade to order. No pre-built stock: your t-shirt is printed when you order it. Lead time and shipping conditions are in **Shipping and returns**. This means no one has worn this t-shirt before you — which, for a tattooist who insists every piece is unique, makes sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNala doesn't know this product exists. She doesn't design merch of herself. What she does design is t-shirts, patches, and flyers for local Johannesburg bands — it's her side work, what pays the bills when tattooing doesn't stretch. She knows what a good print on fabric looks like because she's been ordering them for others for years. The difference is that here the portrait is her: the bristling jacket, the direct gaze, the pink showing through. If you want to know more about who Nala is — Koko's story, Tshepo's collar, the fourteen pattern sketchbooks — her [full biography is here](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/nala\/). The t-shirt is the entry point. What's behind it has a lot more depth. You can see the rest of the [t-shirt collection](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/objects\/) with other Animal Kinhood characters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yago Partal Studio","offers":[{"title":"XS","offer_id":57727827509573,"sku":"5924741_33937","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":57727827542341,"sku":"5924741_33938","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":57727827575109,"sku":"5924741_33939","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":57727827607877,"sku":"5924741_33940","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":57727827640645,"sku":"5924741_33941","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":57727827673413,"sku":"5924741_33942","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/7830\/8677\/files\/nala_ak-apparel-tshirt-men-000_de1c4955-902f-4b60-add7-3a97e070c624.webp?v=1781808651","url":"https:\/\/checkout.yagopartal.com\/products\/nala-lobo-de-tierra-camiseta-de-impresion-integral-hombre","provider":"Yago Partal · Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}