Welcome to The Cryptid Collection, the very first exclusive Shapeshifters fashion line!
We created The Cryptid Collection in celebration of our 10th anniversary as a company. We've been making colorful, custom binders and sports bras for every body for an entire decade! To mark the occasion, we decided to pursue a long-held dream and develop our own original designs, growing our style and creating something brand-new once again. Enter: The Cryptid Collection.
The Cryptid Collection is a design collaboration between co-owners Eli and Krista featuring specialty binders, sports bras, and other products and projects, all designed around the theme of the cryptid: a paranormal creature of localized myth and legend. Though a cryptid may bear some passing resemblance to one or more existing animals, and there are often eye witness accounts of these creatures — sometimes spanning centuries! — no physical evidence exists to definitively prove that they're real. The most famous cryptids are probably Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster.
The weird, ambiguous, vaguely unsettling nature of cryptids is a deep well of inspiration. After all, we're a queer-owned company marketing towards a queer audience, and so much of queerness can be weird, ambiguous, and vaguely unsettling. Not to mention, of course, that we are a company originally founded through Tumblr, home of a robust and enthusiastic cryptid fandom. The Cryptid Collection is a passion project for Eli and Krista, and it’s also shamelessly pandering directly to you.
We'll be continuously releasing new products featuring the cryptids we've chosen to spotlight throughout the year, as well as featuring Eli's couture looks in fashion shows across New England. In the meantime, venture on to meet our featured cryptids and learn what The Cryptid Collection has to offer!
