The Fourth Space · Merch brief

Worn in the
fourth space.

Two capsules, one room. A house uniform built on the pillar, and keepsakes made with Ms. Lauryn Hill.

Written for Miami, Friday 4 and Saturday 5 December 2026. Part One is the brand’s own and outlives the weekend. Part Two is co-created with Ms. Hill’s creative team and exists only for it. Both are built on the pillar; read it first if you have not.

The shape

Two capsules, one room

A permanent collection and a commemorative one, side by side.

The Fourth Space collection is the house uniform. It carries the popular register (gathering, belonging, the room) and is built on the pillar’s structure without ever explaining it.

The Lauryn Hill capsule borrows that structure for one honoree. It is co-created with her creative team: her story, rendered as wearable keepsakes, and never spoken for her.

	Part One · The Fourth Space	Part Two · S&C x Ms. Lauryn Hill
Role	The house uniform. Evergreen	Co-created wearable keepsakes. One weekend
Audience	Saints & Citizens, the creator programme, staff	The 100 at the dinner and the 1,000 in the room on Saturday
Lifespan	Restocked, sold online after Miami	Never restocked. Numbered where it matters
Voice	Plain, present tense, second person	The room speaking to her, never about her
Sign-off	S&C creative	S&C creative and Ms. Hill’s team

Part OneThe Fourth Space collection

Three garments, one figure

Each piece stands alone. Worn together, they make the fourth.

The collection is built as the first, second and third places. Nobody buys a “Fourth Space” piece. You arrive at it by layering, the same way nobody graduates from citizen to saint.

Every rule below is one the pillar already sets for the room. On a garment they become decisions about where the print sits, what it says, and who gets which version.

Pillar rule	On the garment
Structure over mood	Pieces are named by place, not by colour or vibe: First Place, Second Place, Third Place
The seam is the argument	Hero graphics are printed across seams and wrap the body. Flat on a table they never read whole; worn and moving, they assemble
Confer, never crown	No “Saint” printed on a chest. Nothing on the garment declares the wearer’s status
None of it reaches the wall	No labelled diagram, no lexicon, no theory on the product. The geometry may appear tonal and unlabelled; the words never
One honest trace of the real	Every piece carries one real fact: coordinates, a date, an address, a care label written plainly
Levelling	One edition for everyone. No VIP colourway, no staff-only variant. The guest and the crew wear the same thing
Three tenses	First Place copy is past, Second Place outside time, Third Place present

Part OneThe line

Four core pieces, four add-ons

01 to 04 are the collection. 05 to 08 can be cut to fit time and budget.

Piece	Place	Front	Back and detail	Colour
01 Heavyweight tee	First Place · Home	Small S&C mark, left chest	Inside back neck, Clearface italic: where you were formed	Bone
02 Long-sleeve	Second Place · Work	Blank	Full back in Alte Haas Bold, outside time: the Fourth Space wordmark, set large and broken across both side seams so it wraps	Ash
03 Boxy tee	Third Place · The Commons	S&C mark, centre front, small	Plain, present tense: Home. Work. Community. And the room where they meet.	Bone on ash
04 Hoodie or crew	The Fourth Space	Tonal three-circle geometry, ash on ash, no labels	Coordinates and date of the room, set like the Citizens Lounge back	Ash
05 Cap	—	Clearface italic & only	S&C on the strap	Ash, bone
06 Tote	—	The ⊗ mark	The popular line from 03	Bone canvas
07 Candle and incense	Third Place	Box in the existing minimal mock-up	Scent brief: barbershop and beauty parlor, warm wood, clean linen	Ash box, bone type
08 Poster	The Fourth Space	Typographic, in the Citizens Lounge system	Printed, not projected: one object, one place	Bone stock

Five heavyweight tees in bone, ash and amber with a small S&C mark — Chest markThe quiet front. The base for 01 and 03.

Back of a bone tee printed with the Citizens Lounge type poster — Chest markThe quiet front. The base for 01 and 03.

Colour and typeAsh and bone only

Accents stay off this collection; the amber tee in the mock-ups belongs to Part Two, if anywhere. Three type roles on every piece: Alte Haas regular, Alte Haas Bold for the key word, one Clearface italic accent. Display tracking around −0.01em.

PrintSolid ink, never a fade

No tints or halftone fades. Depth comes from fabric weight, tonal print, and puff or high-density on ash. Grain belongs to the lookbook and the site, not the cloth. Rounded corners on hang tags, care labels and packaging.

MaterialsHeavyweight, boxy

Cotton at 280 to 300 gsm, boxy cut, dropped shoulder: the silhouette in the mock-ups. Wrap prints need panel printing before construction or a cut-and-sew blank. Woven neck label; care label in house voice.

Against the pillar. The wrap print on 02 is the piece that carries the argument. If only one thing survives the timeline, it is the seam.

Part TwoS&C x Ms. Lauryn Hill

Wearable keepsakes, made with her

Co-created on calls with Ms. Hill’s creative team.

S&C brings the Fourth Space framework; her team brings her story and vision; together they are rendered in textile. Each piece echoes her introspective and expressive spirit, and uses the Saint, Citizen and Fourth Space intersections to show the whole figure rather than the public one.

Our role is awareness and structure, not authorship. We arrive with a frame and good questions, not finished designs.

The pillar, as questions: Translated into plain language, so her team answers in her words, not ours.
The house: Ash and bone, three type roles, heavyweight blanks, the seam as the argument.
Three territories: References only, and disposable. The table: soul, scholarship and the street at one table. Inside out: introspection worn inside, expression worn outside. The cross-section: her words broken across seams, whole only when worn.
A production envelope: What textile can do in the time left: print, embroidery, woven labels, garment wash, hand-pulled prints, packaging.

Graphics that wrap across seams and assemble only when worn and moving.

Register

Almost silent. If a piece has to explain it, it did not happen.

Part TwoProcess and formats

Five steps, four containers

The containers are fixed now so production can be booked. What goes inside them comes out of the calls.

Step	What happens	Lead
01 Kick-off call	S&C presents the frame; her team responds. We listen and record. No designs shown	Pana
02 Translation	What was said becomes two or three directions, each tied to a region	Pana, Bradley
03 Review call	Her team chooses, cuts and rewrites. Words come from her side wherever possible	Pana
04 Development	Samples, strike-offs, the hand-pulled print, the box	Bradley, Bianca
05 Sign-off	Ms. Hill approves every piece and every word	Pana

Moment	Format	Who	Quantity
The Dinner · Fri 4 Dec	The Seat. A boxed keepsake: heavyweight piece, hand-pulled print, letterpress card from the room to her	Dinner guests, on the chair	100, numbered 001 to 100
The Dinner · Fri 4 Dec	Her piece. The same box, presented	Ms. Hill	1, numbered 000
The Fourth Space · Sat 5 Dec	Room keepsake. Tee or long-sleeve on the inside/outside principle	On sale in the room, plus pre-order	Run to the 1,000 seats
The Fourth Space · Sat 5 Dec	Programme poster. Printed to be framed	Every seat	1,000

Both capsules

What holds, either way

The collaboration’s own rules first, then the house rules both capsules share.

Always “Ms. Lauryn Hill”

Never “Lauryn” or “Hill” alone, on a garment, a tag or a caption.

Her story is hers

Likeness, signature, handwriting, lyrics and archive appear only as her team offers them, and are cleared with label and publisher where needed. No album artwork unless it is cleared.

Confer, never crown

No “Queen”, “Legend” or halo imagery. The room speaks to her, never for her.

The pillar is a tool, not a script

If her team does not recognise it in her story, we drop that part rather than argue for it. Equal billing: Saint & Citizen and Ms. Lauryn Hill, joined by the Clearface italic &. One accent, amber or clay, only if her team wants colour. A stated share of the room keepsake goes to a cause she names.

Do

Ash and bone, three type roles, solid ink
The popular register on the garment: gathering, belonging, the room
One honest trace of the real per piece
Graphics that break across seams and wrap the body
Second person, present tense
Credit the thinking if it is ever cited
Grain on the lookbook, the site and the emails

Don’t

Gradients, tints, translucent type, more than one accent
The structural register on the garment: places, regions, Transcension, the lexicon
Mood graphics with nothing true in them
A clean centred rectangle that reads as a souvenir print
“Saint” as a status printed on a chest
Use the wound the pillar describes to sell anything
Grain printed onto the product

Key team

Three people, three crafts

Who carries what, from the first call to the room.

Pana ZvakarambaDesign & Art Director: Direction and the room. Owns the brief and both capsules’ creative direction, leads the co-creation calls with Ms. Hill’s team, and signs off design before it goes to her.
BradleyBrand, Motion & Graphic Designer: The marks and the files. Type lock-ups, wrap-print artwork, the inside/outside graphics, packaging and tags, print-ready files, and the motion and lookbook assets for the drop.
BiancaLead Production: Making it real. Printers, blanks, samples and strike-offs, quantities, budget, the hand-pulled prints, shipping to Miami and merch on the ground.

Delivery

Seven and a half weeks

Working back from the dinner. Design ideas are due this Friday, 16 October; the approval on 30 October is the one to protect.

When	What	Lead
12 to 16 Oct	Brief signed off; printers asked for lead times on heavyweight blanks, wrap printing and boxed packaging for 100	Pana, Bianca
Fri 16 Oct	Design ideas for both capsules. Directions, sketches and references to react to, not finished artwork	Bradley, Pana
16 to 23 Oct	Kick-off call with Ms. Hill’s team; Part One artwork in development	Pana, Bradley
30 Oct	Ms. Hill’s team approves Part Two	Pana
30 Oct to 9 Nov	Samples and strike-offs; hand-pulled print booked separately, as the slowest item	Bianca, Bradley
10 to 24 Nov	Production run	Bianca
30 Nov	Delivered to Miami, with a buffer for courier delay	Bianca
4 to 5 Dec	The Dinner and The Fourth Space. The collection photographed in the room for the online drop	All

The risk. Everything after 30 October assumes one review round. A second round pushes production into event week.

Still open

What this does not settle

The brief answers what the merch means. These are the decisions it cannot make for anyone.

Decision	Owner	Needed by
Is Wyclef Jean part of the capsule? The invitation honours both; this brief assumes Ms. Hill alone	Pana / Ms. Hill’s team	Kick-off call
Who leads on Ms. Hill’s creative team, and when is the first call?	Pana	16 Oct
Room keepsake sold in the room, online, or both? Who fulfils?	Bianca	23 Oct
Which cause takes the proceeds, and what share?	Ms. Hill’s team	30 Oct
Budget and unit targets for each capsule	Bianca	16 Oct
Does Part One launch in Miami or after it?	Pana	23 Oct

Back

The thinking underneath

Where the four terms come from, and how they were first put to work.

Pillar document

Saint, Citizen, Transcension

The rhetorical and art-direction pillar. Three places, four regions, and the rules that decide what belongs in this world.

Open

Response v1

Reading the production deck

The pillar applied to the shoot: three looks read as three places, and the room in Miami as the fourth.

Open