Units of thebe

Units of Thebe sources from the strong communities within breakdance and hiphop. The streetwear is taken into tailoring, commercial sportswear and leisure, mixed with fine crafted fabrics. The brand is focusing on a few designs that refers to classic army and vintage pieces. The dancers’ movements comes about in the pattern pieces.

For the Swedish founder and designer Julia Hederus, Units of Thebe started with a 1980s film clip of a breaking crew in the Bronx. Street fashion and graffiti in combination with sportswear and futuristic modernity have always been the main inspirational element. The name’s origin is the place Thebes of the city of Luxor in Egypt, though mainly based on imagination rather than actual history – a concept to free creative space as well as a search in human history for union. The units are the confined spaces in the underground chambers of the temple of the Theban Necropolis. Every collection consists of well curated pieces that together connects to various units. There is also a currency called Units of Thebe in Botswana.