{"product_id":"nayna-guepardo-camiseta-infantil-de-impresion-integral","title":"Nayna · Cheetah · Kids t-shirt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngine grease on the knuckles, red flowers on her head, and a leather jacket she's been wearing since she was twenty. This kids' full-print t-shirt carries the portrait of Nayna, cheetah and motorcycle mechanic in Nairobi, across the whole surface. For daily wear, the park, or school.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis kids' t-shirt of Nayna, the cheetah, carries her portrait printed across the whole surface: front, back, and sleeves. What you see is a cheetah in a black leather biker jacket, a red polka-dot bandana at the neck, and fresh flowers on her head. Under all that, a basic white t-shirt. Direct gaze. No forced smile, no catalog pose. A Nairobi motorcycle mechanic looking straight ahead the way someone does who has spent years diagnosing problems before the owner even notices them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Look first\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNayna learned mechanics without anyone teaching her. Her father repaired trucks on the A109, the road connecting Nairobi to Mombasa, and she used to sit next to him after school. She didn't ask questions. She didn't ask for explanations. She just stayed there, handing him wrenches before he asked for them, watching how her father's hands moved under the chassis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy ten she could tell a diesel from a petrol engine just from the sound of the ignition. She hadn't studied it. She'd heard it hundreds of times, sitting in the dust of Athi River, the town southeast of Nairobi where she grew up, with the sound of trucks in the background and the smell of diesel floating in the hot midafternoon air. Her mother sewed in a textile factory. Her grandmother Wanjiku sold chai from a tin stall next to Syokimau station. Nayna absorbed everything without a filter: engines, fabric, cardamom, road dust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat she learned in those years wasn't mechanics. It was a method. Look first. Listen. Let the machine tell you what's wrong before putting your hand in. At fourteen, a tanker truck crushed her father's left foot. He didn't lose it, but he could no longer work under a chassis. The tools sat idle in a box. Nayna was fifteen when she started using them to fix neighborhood bicycles. At sixteen, boda-boda bikes. The drivers of those 125cc motorcycle taxis that move half of Nairobi paid her in cash, sometimes in kind: a helmet, half a tank of petrol, a plate of food.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe didn't always eat every day. But every night she wrote down what she'd earned in a squared notebook.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's something of that in this t-shirt. Not in a symbolic way: directly. It's a garment that carries the portrait of someone who looks closely, who doesn't need to talk to understand what's in front of her. The kind of image a kid can look at many times and find new things each time. The spots on the cheetah's fur. The gold buttons on the jacket cuffs. The red flowers on her head, which Nayna buys two or three times a week at Wakulima market before opening the workshop, because since her grandmother died she hasn't stopped doing it. If the kid asks why a cheetah wears flowers, you've got a conversation that can go a long way. [Nayna's biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/nayna\/) tells the whole story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## For the one who watches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print covers the whole t-shirt — it's not vinyl stuck on the chest or a centered patch. The portrait extends across the entire surface, making the garment look different from the usual printed t-shirt. For exact sizes and fit by age, check the **Size guide** tab. Construction and fabric are in **Fabric, fit and construction**.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's not a t-shirt that shouts. It's a t-shirt that, if you look closely, has a lot of detail. That distinction matters more than you'd think when it comes to kids' clothes: some kids prefer to wear something they love without the whole playground commenting on it. Others want to show it to everyone. This works for both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade to order. Each unit is produced when it's ordered, which means no stockpile and no sizes permanently out of stock. Production and shipping timelines, returns, and anything about delivery are in **Shipping and returns**.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNayna works in a workshop on Lunga Lunga Road, South B's industrial area, Nairobi. The workshop is called NAYNA MOTORS: handpainted sign on the blue gate. Inside there's a long workbench, tools hung on wooden panels, a compressor, a ficus in one corner, and a cat sleeping on the rags. The cat doesn't belong to anyone. Mwangi, the nineteen-year-old apprentice, calls it Jefe. Nayna puts water out for the cat and hasn't given it a name. Those details — the cat, the flowers, the jacket with a tear in the lining she won't repair even though she can sew leather — are what make the portrait work as an image. It's not just an animal in clothes: it's someone with recognizable habits, real quirks, and a particular way of being in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yago Partal Studio","offers":[{"title":"2T","offer_id":57664964526405,"sku":"4224014_33950","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"3T","offer_id":57664964559173,"sku":"4224014_33949","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"4T","offer_id":57664964591941,"sku":"4224014_33951","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"5T","offer_id":57664964624709,"sku":"4224014_33952","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"6","offer_id":57664964657477,"sku":"4224014_33953","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"6X","offer_id":57664964690245,"sku":"4224014_33954","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"7","offer_id":57664964723013,"sku":"4224014_33955","price":39.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/7830\/8677\/files\/nayna_ak-apparel-tshirt-child-000_1c0d21c4-1df5-4b49-bb8d-cc5d87b1c65e.webp?v=1781808034","url":"https:\/\/checkout.yagopartal.com\/products\/nayna-guepardo-camiseta-infantil-de-impresion-integral","provider":"Yago Partal · Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}