Anarchic Adjustment

Anarchic Adjustment was a fashion clothing company founded in 1986 by British clothing designer Nick Philip.[1] It initially focused on skate punk wear but later, operating in San Francisco, California, became known for its rave fashion, such as T-shirts featuring aliens, UFOs, or MDMA-inspired slogans like "open your mind."[1][2]

Anarchic Adjustment
Industryfashion clothing
Founded1986
FounderNick Philip
Area served
California
Japan

Anarchic Adjustment opened two fashion shops in Japan, one opened in Tokyo in 1994, west of Ebisu station[3] and a second store in the American Village in Osaka inside the American Village Parco Store. Alan Brown, along with Joi Ito were responsible for founding the Anarchic stores in Japan.

Hiroshi Fujiwara, DJ, Mixmaster Morris, Towa Tei of Deelite, and Timothy Leary were early adopters of Anarchic Adjustment fashion. Hiroshi featured "Anarchic" in his Fujiwara Adjustment section of Cutie Magazine and Timothy Leary wore "Anarchic" whenever he could.

  • Original Anarchic T-shirt art work
    Original Anarchic T-shirt art work
  • Ozone Freestyle Bike Ad from Freestylin' magazine, Designed by Alan Brown
    Ozone Freestyle Bike Ad from Freestylin' magazine, Designed by Alan Brown
  • Anarchic Adjustment's first item of clothing 1986
    Anarchic Adjustment's first item of clothing 1986

References
  1. Mireille Silcott: Rave America: New School Dancescapes. ISBN 978-1-55022-383-5 p.63 ("A graphic designer named Nick Philip created a San Fran rave-gear company called Anarchic Adjustment, specializing in T-shirts emblazoned with buzz phrases like 'open your mind' and images of aliens; the company was soon raking in thirty thousand dollars a season.")
  2. Reynolds, Simon (June 19, 2013). Generation Ecstasy. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-0415923736. San Francisco's cyber-mystic shtick manifested itself most blatantly through rave fashion and flyers. Nick Philip's clothing company, Anarchic Adjustment, went from purveying skatepunk wear to being 'a mouthpiece for loved-up ecstasy consciousness.' [...] 'We were the first to put aliens and UFOs on shirts,' claims Philip.
  3. "Shop Info : CONNECTED, TOKYO". 2007-12-12. Archived from the original on 2007-12-12. Retrieved 2023-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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