NAMESAKE

The brothers Steve, Michael and Richard Hsieh grew up in a Taiwanese fishing harbour, went to school in Tokyo and university in the United States, and ran the concept store NE.SENSE for seven years before launching NAMESAKE in 2020. The name, 'in the name of the father' in Mandarin, honours a father who wanted to be a designer but took over the family fishing business, and the clothes set basketball against fishing and farming, with sportswear ease and tailored finish. NAMESAKE was a semi-finalist for the 2023 LVMH Prize.