ABOUT
ARI500 is a luxury streetwear brand that seeks to personify the human intuition and drive of self growth through dress. 500 is a blend of the vibrations of number five and the energies of the powerful number zero. Five resonates with making major life changes, spontaneity, and life lessons learned through experience. Zero resonates with the influences of universal energies, continuing cycles and flow, and the beginning point.
Number 500 promotes the courage and personal freedom to live and serve your soul mission as your intuition and inner-knowing dictates. ARI500 strives to provide garments and accessories that allow an individual to identify who their soul is. By tapping into our inner knowing, we are able to critique our existence and contributions to the world. We create space with out existence. We are all spacemakers.
OUR MISSION
During the design process, we considered all material options except for vegan leather. Although marketed as a sustainable option, vegan leather is just “PVC” aka plastic, that is stamped and dyed to resemble the look of genuine leather.
ARI500 sources all leather from Italian tanneries where all leather skins are sourced from the food industry. Furthermore, we’ve chosen vegetable tanned leather that is not tanned with chromium metals, decreasing the amount of toxic chemicals used in the tanning process.