Est. 2018 · Dubai + Colombia

Chimera Manifesto

We're fascinated with art, design, film, music, literature. Anything and everything that makes our skin tingle with curiosity and excitement. We're into the kind of buzz that gives us a sense that we're onto something really off-center and odd. Something unconventional and bizarre yet strangely familiar. Making sense so far? Try to keep up, because one breath we're in the museum and the next we're in the mosh pit.

You'll hear us say “wait…what!?” a lot. A LOT. Chimera stares straight at the complexity of modern life as it hits us, through visual and street culture. In short? The ups and the downs of life. Yeah, it gets ugly. That's exactly what we're about. That's where our curiosity is sparked. And we're all in.

We want the freedom to look where nobody else does: the basement show, the story nobody bothered to write down. No more and no less. The world reads a subculture and sees a costume, a phase, a trend. We read it as a life. And let's get one thing straight though: we don't do trends. We stare past the stigma the world keeps alive, the side-eye and the turned shoulder, and build our own independence out of our style. We sweat the details, we value original design and art, and the people who create it.

The world reads a subculture and sees a costume, a phase, a trend. We read it as a life.

Our attitude calls the shots. We're a platform for the urban and the underground, and the work is the proof: design, apparel, content. We design for people who are truly open-minded and prejudice-free. People who want to do life according to their own rules and conditions.

Cut to it: we're a collaboration with no strings, no debt, no permission asked. We mix cultures, stories, identities, art. And we're for disruption and revolution: where style, subculture and subversion fuse into a sticky and beautifully compound mess. The bitter and the sweet, the obvious and the elusive. All. Of. It.

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If you are playing, shooting, promoting, or releasing something in Dubai or across LATAM, tell us about it. Bands looking for a first write-up, photographers with a set from last night, anyone running a night nobody has covered yet — those are the messages we want.

What we do not need: label press releases, marketing packets, or anything written in the third person about how exciting your brand is. Send the work itself.

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