Combat Journal, Vol. I

Stories deserve pages

The Combat Journal is a magazine about the first year of Combat Créatif: four garments and the thinking behind them. Each piece began as a story before it became clothing, and stories deserve pages. Sixty-eight of them, written, shot, and laid out start to finish.

A $30,000 first year

Combat is the clothing company I started with my best friend Abdul. We taught ourselves graphic design, built the store, and grew a simple idea to $30,000 in revenue. The journal is the record of that year: the garments, the references, and the people who wore them.

Four garments

The Soldier Uniform, the Workshirt, the Playfight Crewneck, and the Neighborhood Tee. One from war films, one from garage-startup lore, one from being a kid, one from New York itself. The whole issue is here, page by page.

Combat Journal

Combat Journal