Enfants Riches Déprimés was founded in late 2012 by artist and designer Henri Alexander Levy, who started the label while studying art at UCLA. The name translates as "depressed rich kids," and the brand operates between Los Angeles and Paris on what Levy calls "elitist punk", an aesthetic drawn from 1970s French punk, 1980s Japanese avant-garde, and conceptual art.
The t-shirts are where the brand first drew attention, and they remain its clearest statement. Each is treated as an artwork: hand-distressed and finished by hand, with painted and printed graphics pulled from Levy's own archive of sketches, references running from punk band imagery to literary and political slogans. Made in limited quantities, the tees carry the deliberately raw, lived-in finish the label built its name on.
We carry Enfants Riches Déprimés t-shirts at Feuille, including graphic and distressed styles, available online and in-store at our Vancouver boutique. The graphics are made to read as worn and authored by hand, so no two distressed pieces finish quite the same.
