Creatives in Practice: Navinder Nangla for Pull&Bear

Navinder Nangla doesn’t walk into the fashion industry. He spray-paints the doors, misspells the signs, and flips the whole structure upside down. Known for his jagged handwriting, deliberately “wrong” grammar, and slogans like “Fassion Weak” and “Vandalise the Runway,” Nangla has taken street commentary and turned it into visual language. Now, he’s teamed up with Pull&Bear under the retailer’s Creatives in Practice series to bring his unfiltered vision to a new audience. The result is a riot of apparel, energy, and anti-fashion truth-telling—all wrapped in bold, wearable rebellion.

NAVINDER NANGLA—THE ARTIST WHO WRITES WRONG ON PURPOSE

Navinder Nangla is not your average artist. Born and raised in Northamptonshire, UK, and of South Asian descent, Nangla grew up confronting expectations—academic, cultural, and aesthetic. Living with dyslexia and ADHD, he learned early that his way of seeing the world didn’t align with standardized systems. But instead of trying to conform, he amplified the chaos.

His now-recognizable handwriting—often childlike, loud, and erratically spaced—is not a stylistic gimmick. It’s autobiographical. It’s political. It’s resistance. The misspellings? Intentional. The mess? Part of the message. Nangla doesn’t just make art—he hijacks public spaces and reclaims the aesthetic of error as a badge of pride.

From wheat-paste posters to live-painting runway shows, he has established a presence in both underground and mainstream spaces. And now, his latest canvas is fabric.

CREATIVES IN PRACTICE—PULL&BEAR’S PLATFORM FOR THE UNFILTERED

Pull&Bear’s Creatives in Practice initiative is about celebrating people who don’t wait to be invited—they just start making. The program brings in multidisciplinary artists—painters, writers, designers, and poets—to collaborate on collections that blur the lines between fashion and narrative.

Navinder Nangla fits perfectly into this mold. But rather than softening his edges, Pull&Bear has chosen to lean into his rawness. The brand gave him full freedom to remix their silhouettes, print his slogans across garments, and even share behind-the-scenes insights in the form of street activations and video installations.

In an era where fast fashion often feels formulaic, this collaboration is a rare moment of intentional noise—inviting contradiction, emotion, and punk spirit into the showroom.

THE COLLECTION—TYPOS, TAGS, AND TEXTILES

At the heart of the Nangla x Pull&Bear collection is a sense of wearable protest. The clothes aren’t just decorated; they’re spoken through.

Key pieces include:

• Oversized t-shirts and hoodies emblazoned with his signature mantras: “FASSION IS MY PASHION”, “STYLIST FOR NO ONE”, and “VANDALISE THE RUNWAY.” These statements act like public declarations, styled as though torn from the side of a train or alley wall.
• Graffiti jackets where fabric becomes a wall—spray-streaked, sticker-patched, splattered. Some even feature patches sewn at deliberately clashing angles to emulate real tagging practices.
• Deconstructed trousers and utility shorts, scribbled with messages down the leg seams and waistband interiors, inviting the wearer to discover hidden statements when dressing.
• Accessories that double as art objects: tote bags printed with phrases like “This Bag Is Empty Like Fashion Week Promises”, and bucket hats stitched with upside-down labels.

Each item feels like a manifesto you wear—not just a look.

PERFORMATIVE STREET ART—WHEN CLOTHING TALKS BACK

In the spirit of street art, the campaign accompanying the launch didn’t take place in galleries—it took place on walls, corners, digital sidewalks, and TikTok. In a standout performance, Nangla painted a Pull&Bear storefront live, writing his thoughts directly onto the glass as passersby looked on. Words like “FASHION = FAKERY” and “SILENCE IS STYLE” emerged one after the other, like a diary entry in real-time.

These performances aren’t stunts. They’re confrontational poetry. For Nangla, visibility is not the end goal—it’s a tool for interruption. His work forces people to slow down, read, react, and question what they thought fashion was supposed to be.

Online, a video of Nangla tagging “Fassion Weak” across a white backdrop for Pull&Bear garnered millions of views—especially among younger consumers hungry for realness over polish.

DYSLEXIA AS DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

“I spell things wrong on purpose. Because my brain has always worked differently. Why would I design normally?”

This quote from Nangla cuts to the core of his creative philosophy. Rather than trying to correct his cognitive wiring, he made it his brand. The misspellings in his slogans become a form of visual protest—against academic perfectionism, against elitist design rules, against any system that says art must look or read a certain way.

Pull&Bear could have sanitized that. But they didn’t.

Instead, they gave him full creative control. In doing so, they’ve helped platform not just his aesthetic, but his story—one of survival, subversion, and self-ownership.

FROM THE STREETS TO THE STORE—WHO THIS COLLECTION IS FOR

Unlike luxury collabs that feel unreachable, the Pull&Bear x Nangla collection is meant to be worn—scuffed, layered, customized. It’s for the art student who skips class to work on their zine. For the retail assistant who draws in their notebook during breaks. For anyone who feels like they’ve been left out of fashion’s shiny, curated image—and wants to write themselves back in.

Prices range from affordable basics (~€29 for tees) to higher-end graffitied jackets (~€129). Everything feels honest. Nothing feels performative.

In short: this is anti-glamour made glam.

THE LEGACY—NAVINDER NANGLA’S PLACE IN CONTEMPORARY FASHION

With this collaboration, Navinder Nangla has taken his work from concrete to cotton—and fashion is better for it.

What he offers is not just a fresh voice, but a new visual language. One that doesn’t conform to the sleek rules of luxury, but instead celebrates sloppiness, urgency, and resistance. His Pull&Bear pieces won’t be remembered just for how they looked—but for how they felt.

And most importantly, for how they made space—for artists with learning differences, for brown creatives from provincial towns, for weirdos who turn their pain into poetry.

THE MISSPELLED FUTURE OF FASHION

Creatives in Practice: Navinder Nangla for Pull&Bear isn’t just a collab. It’s a signal. That the fashion world is (finally) ready to listen to people who don’t speak its language. That messiness can be mastery. That vandalism can be vision.

Navinder Nangla doesn’t just disrupt. He rewrites. And with Pull&Bear, he’s written it in thick, dripping ink—so it won’t wash off anytime soon.