Green Arc de Triomphe Unisex Garment-Dyed T-shirt

The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile was Napoleon’s commission—begun in 1806 after Austerlitz, completed in 1836 under Louis-Philippe, inaugurated with Napoleon’s remains passing beneath it in 1840. It sits at the summit of the Champs-Élysées at the center of twelve radiating avenues, which give the Étoile its name: the star. From the terrace at the top, Paris organizes itself into a comprehensible geometry, the Haussmann boulevards converging on this point as if the city were making an argument about the relationship between grandeur and order. It is one of the better views in France, and this shirt carries the monument that anchors it.

The garment-dyed green gives the Arc a quality of permanence on the fabric—not the tourist-brochure brightness of a postcard image, but something more like the patina of the limestone itself, which has been standing in Paris air for nearly two centuries and has acquired from that exposure exactly the gravitas it was designed to convey. Wear it as someone who knows what the Arc is for, and what it has seen.