The Collection
Begin with Men’s or Women’s
Two doors, one republic. Choose a side — the designs and the models wearing them live behind each.
The Golden State, tailored. Parody & satire in navy, cream and gold — from the fog of the Bay to the sun of San Diego.
Or shop the flagship — MichiganistanTwo doors, one republic. Choose a side — the designs and the models wearing them live behind each.
Californistan is the newest state line of Michiganistan Design Studios, drawn up under Maynila Interactive Studios — the house that turned one Great Lakes joke into a whole map. Same joke, warmer accent.
Its capital is the Bay Area: the Golden Gate over cold water, the hills of San Francisco, the Afghan bakeries of Fremont — the largest Afghan community in America — and the tech campuses of Santa Clara. Fog in the morning, gold by five.
Down south the provinces hold just as strong: Los Angeles and Anaheim, home to Little Arabia on Brookhurst Street, and San Diego, where City Heights keeps the coast honest. One state, three worlds, a single name stitched across all of it. The university is fictional. The state pride is not.
The honest status: the first Californistan designs are being made right now. Nothing is dressed up as ready before it is — no stand-in products, no placeholder prices.
When the drop is ready, the designs — and the models wearing them — appear on the Men’s and Women’s pages first.
One design system, state by state, in order. Michiganistan leads as the flagship; the rest of the map follows.
The flagship store is open today. Shop the Michiganistan collection — the line that started the whole map — while Californistan finishes its first run.
Shop MichiganistanCalifornistan is a satirical parody fashion line from Michiganistan Design Studios — a love letter to California, its bay, its deserts, and everyone who ever sat in traffic on the 101 and called it home anyway. The republic is fictional. The fleece will be real.
Fog in, gold out.
