The Brand
Ambous,
Fearless Ambition.
A brand about promoting Fearless Ambition and realizing our full potential in life.
Origin · May 2020
It began with a sunset.
For years in Chicago, I watched how people dressed and walked into the stores of the brands they wore. I kept finding the same fracture: the pieces that fit well carried a design I did not want. The pieces with the design I wanted never fit. Nothing felt built for the person wearing it.
Then one evening in early May, I was watching the sunset from my high-rise when the name came. Ambous. It arrived whole, without effort, already the word for the thing I had been circling for years.
Trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, I started drawing the piece that was missing. A garment cut to feel tailored to the body it lives on. A design sharp enough to earn the fit. Every piece is built so the person wearing it is, in that same moment, promoting fearless ambition to the rest of the world.
Brian Shimkus · Founder · Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Founder
A brand about promoting Fearless Ambition and realizing our full potential in life.
Ambous is founded and designed by Brian Shimkus, building from Chicago. Trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, he draws and refines every piece so each garment feels made for the person wearing it. Built one principle at a time.
From sketch to shoulder
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Draw
Every garment begins in pencil on paper.
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Pattern
Graded over weeks, not days. Fit is the product.
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Cut & Sew
By specialists in a Los Angeles atelier.
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Release
In limited numbers. Once the run ends, it ends.
“It’s truly amazing what we are capable of in life if we become fearlessly ambitious and eliminate any self-limiting beliefs.”
A quote from Brian Shimkus, founder of Ambous