Yeah what's all this about anyways?

feinwasser is the artistic alias of me, Lukas Böhm.

It all started as a clothing label when I was young, naive and broke. Me and a friend sold fair trade shirts with my designs from a totally transparent supply chain for a pay what you want price because we actually believed you could build an anticapitalist company in a capitalist system.

Two burnouts, a month in the mental ward and some therapy later I have finally learned to contain my activism to the limits of what my mental health can handle. I freelance as a graphic and web designer, sell paintings and sculptures and have a part time job as an IT-Guy for an NGO I like.

I am happy to be able to run feinwasser without pressure or constraints now. The shirts are still fair and everything I do is still as transparent as possble. But I am neither dependent on the money this shop makes nor do I try to convince you or me that by buying stuff here you are gonna make the world a better place. You are going to make me happy and hopefully yourself happy by buying here and that's it. But I think that is plenty and if you actually read all this it already feels like a bit of recognition for my work and you can treat yourself by saving 20% with the code yeahireadallthat at the checkout!

Thanks,
Lukas

About Fair Clothing

Fair clothing is important. Like, hella important. Few industries produce as much waste and exploit as many people as the fashion industry.

But you know what else is important? Knowing the boundaries of what you can achieve with conscious consumerism.

Fair Fashion has been on the rise for decades but exploitation and environmental destruction have been rising as well because there is just so much money in fast fashion. It is estimated that the global production of garments doubled between 2000 and 2014.

So yes you should definitely buy fair fashion but you should also be aware that things will continue to be fucked up if we cannot find a way to fight capitalism and the profit-driven sociopaths it produces with legslation.

That being ranted:
Yes, all the clothing on this website is made from organic cotton in FairWear certified supply chains. I opted for Stanley/Stella as supplier cause I like the quality of their shirts and they were a fair fashion company from the ground up. Also they have got the more credible of the big pile of fair fashion certificates out there.

But:
I am still just some guy selling print-on-demand stuff. Some will tell you that is an ecological way of doing things because it just gets printed what is being ordered. But in my opinion the easy accessibility of this kind of services leads to more demand. I try to make up for that here and there by donating part of the profits to causes I support but that feels more like an "well gotta do something at least."

So everything is fucked?

You might say. And I'd say yeah, pretty much, sorry. But we can't just all drop dead to save the environment and just giving up and not giving any fuck at all is just a dick move as well. So I sell shirts I like as fair and transparent as possible. But I'm not gonna give you some bullshit startup pitch about how they are going to make the world a better place.

But if you like what you see: That makes me quite happy! And that is not nothing 💜

Also if you really wanna see a company that does a good job at this whole fair thing: Check out dna merch! Honest to heart recommendation from me!

About My Art

Like with most artists of the past 70 years or so my art is primarily influenced by three things:

1. The innate desire to create
2. The everchanging technical innovations making new forms of art possible and others obsolete
3. The occasional way too heavy trip of acid that hides in the blotter you least expect it and violently rips the fabric of reality, leaving you to bath in colors you did not know existed, made up of shapes violating laws of geometry you did not know you cared about, until you realize that wanting to paint something that is beautiful is laughable because it would all be a pile of dirt compared to this beauty right here and if people wanted to see something beautiful they should please all grow up and do some acid in the woods like god intended and you are from now on just gonna paint the things you enjoy painting and if they look good on a shirt even better.

(It is by design that this paragraph is still in english in the german version of the page, gonna protect the innocent eyes of my mom.)
Update: Yeah lol there will never be a German version of anything. By the time this page is ready for production there will be Svelte 5. No time to translate, let's just rewrite the whole code every 6 months.