Between Acts was founded in Los Angeles in 2026.
The name draws on the theatrical idea of the entr'acte: the pause after one act has ended and before the next begins. On stage, a person is given a scripted role to play. Between acts, that order loosens. The performer is no longer inside one part, but has not yet entered another.
We see daily life in a similar way. A person is never a single character, but the world often asks one to be readable through one role. Between Acts is interested in the moments when that single reading begins to fail, when different memories and desires remain present at once.
Clothing is often the first thing people read. For this reason, we believe it should be able to also hold complexity. We think of design as a form of collage, building an image from many points of view rather than one fixed perspective. We embrace history and visual culture as fragments within a larger composition. A garment may carry elements that do not naturally belong together, but through its construction, they begin to form a larger whole. The contradiction becomes part of the clothing's meaning.
Between Acts makes garments for contemporary life, with enough clarity to be worn and enough ambiguity to stay personal.