Mumbai 01 belongs to our City Series. It is five oversized tees, each built around one Mumbai landmark: a railway station, a sea road, a bridge, a train that runs above the street and a row of Art Deco buildings. Here is a short history of each place, and how it ended up on a tee.
CSMT: the Gothic station
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), formerly Victoria Terminus, was designed by the British architect F. W. Stevens and built over ten years, starting in 1878. UNESCO, which listed it in 2004 under the name Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, describes it as Victorian Gothic Revival blended with Indian traditional architecture, noting its stone dome, turrets and pointed arches. British architects worked with Indian craftsmen on the building.
The CSMT tee puts the facade on the back: the dome, the rose window, the Gothic arches and the palms in front, with CSMT above and the coordinates below. A small crest sits on the chest, and the tee is 240 GSM cotton in off white.
Mumbai Gold: Marine Drive at night
Marine Drive, officially Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road, was laid out in the first half of the 20th century on land reclaimed under the Back Bay Reclamation Scheme, which extended the city west into the sea. It runs for about 3.6 km in a C-shaped curve from Nariman Point to Girgaon Chowpatty. At night its streetlights look like a string of pearls along the bay, which is how it came to be called the Queen's Necklace.
Mumbai Gold draws that curve after dark, under MUMBAI in a gold serif across the back, with a small MUMBAI and मुंबई on the chest. It is printed on 240 GSM cotton in royal blue.
Mumbai Coordinates: the Sea Link
The Bandra-Worli Sea Link crosses Mahim Bay between Bandra and Worli. It was inaugurated on 30 June 2009 with four of its eight lanes open, and the other four followed about nine months later. The 5.6 km link, commissioned by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation and built by Hindustan Construction Company, includes India's first cable-stayed bridge built in the open sea.
Mumbai Coordinates draws the bridge in black line work under a tall MUMBAI and a green sun, with the city's coordinates, 19.0760 N 72.8777 E, along the base. The chest repeats a small MUMBAI and the same coordinates, on white 240 GSM cotton.
Mumbai Sunrise: the monorail
The Mumbai Monorail, a project of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, was India's first modern monorail. Its first phase, 8.8 km from Wadala to Chembur, opened to the public on 2 February 2014. The second phase, from Wadala to Sant Gadge Maharaj Chowk, opened to the public on 4 March 2019, bringing the line to about 20 km.
Mumbai Sunrise shows the monorail on its raised track, running between pastel towers under a pink sun, with MUMBAI above, and puts मुंबई with a pink sun and the city's coordinates on the chest. It is the lightest tee in the set, in 180 GSM beige cotton.
Bombay Palm: Art Deco by the Oval
In 2018 UNESCO listed the Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai, two groups of buildings that face each other across the Oval Maidan. Victorian Gothic public buildings from the late 19th century line its east side; Art Deco residential, commercial and entertainment buildings, put up on the Back Bay Reclamation in the early 20th century, line the west. UNESCO notes that these buildings blend Indian design with Art Deco imagery, a style that became known as Indo-Deco.
Bombay Palm draws an Art Deco building by the Oval Maidan, with its curved balconies, porthole windows and palms, under BOMBAY in tall deco letters, and puts a palm and BOMBAY on the chest. It is the heaviest of the five, 260 GSM terry in jade, and comes in sizes up to 3XL.
One city, five tees
None of these places are hidden away. They are a station, a promenade, a bridge, a train line and a row of buildings that Mumbai walks past, drives over and rides through every day. Mumbai 01 draws the city as people use it.
All five tees are unisex, cut oversized, printed to order and shipped free across India. You can see them side by side in the Mumbai 01 collection.