Ten new pieces landed this month. Every one of them carries a story older than the cloth it is printed on. Here is what you are actually wearing.
Antara takes its name from the Greek for mayhem — commotion, chaos — and the belief that out of disorder something refined and intentional can be born. That is not a tagline. It is the working method. Each piece begins as a drawing of a myth, and the garment is built around the drawing. It started in 2019 with Zeus and Hera, a union that stands for balance and harmony, and it has not changed since.
Kronos, and the titan of time
Time bends to no one, except Kronos. The Kronos Heavyweight Tee carries a fine engraving of the titan seated on his throne among the harvest — a full-colour piece across the back, with nothing on the front but the Antara wordmark at the left chest. Kronos ruled the golden age and was undone by his own children. He is a useful thing to wear on your back: the reminder that nothing holds forever.
A centaur, drawing his bow
The High Peaks Heavyweight Tee is a painted centaur on a mountain ridge above the clouds, bow drawn. Centaurs sit on the line between the civilised and the wild, which is roughly where most of us spend our week. Aim high.
One look, and you are stone
The Medusa Hoodie puts Antara's Medusa across the front of a black pullover, est. 2019 across the upper back. Medusa is usually told as a monster story. It is more honestly a story about being looked at — which is why she belongs on a hood.
Two sides of the thunder god
The Double Zeus Hoodie mirrors the Zeus head from the Odyssey archive in red and blue on white. Two faces of the same god, facing away from each other. The 2019 drawing that began all of this was Zeus and his wife; this one is Zeus and himself.
ΟΔΥΣΣΕΥ — the long way home
The Odyssey Heavyweight Tee wears the word in Greek across the chest. Ten years to get home, and the point of the story was never the destination. In Agave and White.
The only prize at the ancient games
Winners at Olympia were not given gold. They were given a wreath of laurel, cut from a tree. That crown runs through three pieces this season: a gold wreath at the hip of the Victor's Wreath Straight-Leg Pant, with the Antara name held at its centre; a single sprig at the chest of the Laurel Quarter-Zip; and, smallest of all, a sprig set inside every ivory diamond of the Hippodrome Silks Shirt.
Racing silks, in Antara's language
The Hippodrome Silks Shirt takes the diamond check of a jockey's colours and rebuilds it as something you would wear off the track as well as on the lawn. Navy collar, navy back yoke, featherlight. It was made for the Spring Carnival — Caulfield through to Cup Day — and it sits alongside the Parian Marble Polo, which wraps the white, fine-grained stone the Greek sculptors worked in around an ivory slim-fit polo, grey and gold veining and all. Parian marble was chosen by sculptors because it catches light. So does the polo.
Made the slow way
Every piece here is part of ANTARA Originals — monthly drops, made to order, printed and sewn only once you have asked for it. It means a few extra days. It also means nothing sits in a warehouse waiting to be discounted, and nothing is made that nobody wanted.