Richard Alexander Cooke is an independently organized garment maker based in Brooklyn, New York focused on crafting men’s garments with immense care for detail and slow processes to offer truly unique artisanal clothing. Taking inspiration from rock and heavy music and melding that with his fascination with sacred geometry and esoteric philosophy, hyper unique garments are crafted from exclusively natural materials with attention to texture, comfort, and traditional finishing techniques. Simply put these are garments made to emphasize the wearers life and place within nature and the cosmos.
Richard Alexander Cooke is a craftsman of garments, his eponymous label is the physical artistic manifestation of his interests in a multiplicity of areas such as philosophy, spirituality, history, and music.
Richard utilizes only natural materials to produce garments that undergo experimental finishing techniques that offer garments that should feel as though they’ve been picked from a tree.
A connection to nature is integral in creation of the work and in the bearer of the work, there is no polish no plastic, nothing to fake through industrialized processes and glamorous marketing, there is only reality and truth.
