Song for the Mute
Australia · Est. 2010 · Luxury
Song for the Mute is an Australian luxury designer label for men and women, founded in Sydney in 2010 by Lyna Ty and Melvin Tanaya. The childhood friends bring complementary skills: Ty, an Italian-trained fashion designer, leads design as creative director, while Tanaya, an award-winning graphic artist, directs the brand. The label began with a single printed T-shirt, and its core idea has always been that garments should communicate something meaningful. Its debut collection, Ink, for autumn-winter 2010, comprised just eight styles. Since then the label has treated each season as a chapter in a long-form story, creating coats, jackets, shirts, knits, trousers and T-shirts with relaxed, layered silhouettes. It has worked with local Australian manufacturers since its first T-shirt, and its clothing is made in Australia. Fabric sits at the core of its design, with an experimental, textile-led process that blends streetwear influence with careful craft and long-lasting quality. Song for the Mute presents its menswear on the Paris fashion calendar. Its adidas Originals collaboration launched in 2022, when its Shadowturf sneakers sold out in about ten minutes, and it has since opened a Sydney flagship and a store at QV Melbourne.
