The Shot Clock Version
Built for the femme in the arena
In 2018, the summer I moved to Brooklyn from Oakland, I started playing pickup basketball with a crew of queer friends, old and new. We called ourselves JV, a joke about skill level and an honest description of the energy on and off the court. We wanted a shirt, so I volunteered to design one.
Somewhere in the process, Botticelli's Birth of Venus found me. I reimagined her as a singular figure, context melted away, an androgynous being elegantly lifting a basketball into a layup. I called the design Joyful Venus. My teammates loved it. Friends bought it. Then came Medusa with the Hoops. Lillith Balls. Each new piece took a mythic femme from an iconic painting and put her on the court.
Court Goddess is a garment series where myth claims the court. Each drop imagines the Goddess not as a passive figure waiting to be painted, but as a divine force in the paint. The court is her temple. These pieces forge the wearer into legend.
For those who want sportswear to feel like ritual wear: elegant, charged, and unapologetically built for the femme in the arena.
From Canvas to Court
How a 500-year-old painting becomes your new favorite drip
Each piece starts with a painting and a question:
What would she do if she had the ball?
i. Source
We scour the archives of art history for iconic Goddesses, divine femmes whose presence painters couldn't fully contain.
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ii. Reimagine
Each painting is adapted by hand, honoring the original while developing a piece that works as ritual wear. Finessing color, scale, and composition until the Goddess cuts out of the frame and onto the court.
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iii. Make
Printed on Comfort Colors heavyweight cotton. Garment-dyed, slightly faded, built to be worn until it has its own stories to tell. We select for the kind of print quality and fabric feel we'd want for ourselves.