ABOUT

Welcome to Raphael Gabriel — a one-person studio making wearable art out of Wil, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

I’m Raphael Gabriel Keller. I’m a painter, and I make clothing. Each piece in this shop starts as a painting and ends as a garment — hand-finished, signed, and shipped to you from a small workshop in Switzerland.

The work is mine, the paint is mine, the late-night mistakes are mine. Nothing here is mass-produced. If a piece is in stock, I either made it last week or I painted it this morning.

I started painting long before I started selling clothes. The shift happened the day I put a finished canvas on a friend and they asked, “why isn’t this a shirt?” So now the canvas is the shirt — and the brush, the ink, and the late-night mistakes all stay visible in the final piece.

What I won’t do: copies, fast fashion, ghost prints, or designs I didn’t draw.

What I will do: send you a piece you’ll struggle to find on anyone else.

Thanks for being here.
— Raphael