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SQUIZITO is an Italian-crafted streetwear atelier based in Milan. We design and produce strictly limited drops of garments, screen-printed by hand on 190gsm organic cotton, paired one-to-one with soulbound on-chain certificates on Base. Each drop is sold once and never reprinted. The SQUIZITO Atelier brand is operated by Vora S.r.l., the legal entity behind the brand, with operations based at Via Tortona 27, 20144 Milan, Italy.

No. The SQUIZITO certificate is a non-transferable authenticity attestation, not an investment. It cannot be traded and gives the holder no claim on assets, no right to receive value, and no financial return. Because it is non-transferable and represents only authenticity, it falls outside the definition of a crypto-asset under MiCA (Regulation (EU) 2023/1114) and is not a financial instrument under MiFID II. The full regulatory classification is in the terms of sale.

A soulbound clothing certificate is a non-transferable token bound one-to-one to a single physical garment. For SQUIZITO it is an ERC-721 token made permanent (non-transferable) under ERC-5192, on the Base network. It is minted when the garment is produced, carries the garment's serial, renders its artwork fully on-chain as SVG, and stays in the atelier vault. You do not need a wallet to own the garment · the certificate proves the piece is genuine and records its provenance forever.

A typical NFT is transferable · it can be bought, sold, and moved between wallets, often held for speculation. A soulbound certificate cannot be transferred at all (ERC-5192) and confers no financial right · it exists only to prove a physical garment is authentic and to record its provenance. SQUIZITO certificates are soulbound · they never move, never trade, and stay paired to the garment's serial in the atelier vault.

You verify a SQUIZITO piece with the four-anchor check at squizito.me/verify/ · (1) the contract ticker must equal SQZT, (2) the token must be held by the brand-wide atelier vault, (3) the token must exist on-chain, and (4) the 16-character code on the sealed authenticity card must hash (keccak256) to the value stored at mint. All four must pass. The contract is public and independently verifiable on BaseScan.

A streetwear drop is limited when its total count is fixed before sale and never increased. SQUIZITO fixes each drop's count when the drop opens, prints that exact run once by hand in Milan, and retires the screen when the run is done. There is no restock, no second print, no other size run, and no later colourway · once a drop closes it is closed forever. Drop 001 is a run of 100 numbered tees, of which 99 are offered for sale and piece 003 is retained for the Foundation Archive.

Made in Italy means the garment is produced in Italy, not only branded there. SQUIZITO prints, finishes, and packs each drop in a small Milan atelier on 190 gsm organic cotton, with materials sourced across Italy. The print is applied by hand, screen by screen, in up to four spot colours over the SQUIZITO acid-yellow background.

STRATA is SQUIZITO's first series · a fourteen-drop cycle. Each drop ("stratum") is the result of a public bando di selezione · an open commission selection where a different designer is commissioned to create the founding garment of that drop. The first stratum is groundswell (drop 001). When stratum 014 closes, Series I closes and Series II opens under a different name.

SQUIZITO's voice is disruptive luxury. Excessive means: more than what's required for the function, more than what the industry expects, more than the price suggests. Hand-screened printing when digital would be cheaper. Soulbound on-chain certificates when an IPFS hash would suffice. A 20% revenue share to the designer when other brands offer flat fees. The brand voice is unrepentantly bold · we make objects that demand to be noticed.

Milan is the operational capital of European fashion and the city where most of the supply chain for premium garment production still lives. We print in a small studio in Milan because the craft people exist there, because we can walk into the studio, and because "Made in Italy" is a fact, not a marketing line on our care labels. The Via Tortona 27 address is the real operational location of the SQUIZITO Atelier brand, owned and operated by Vora S.r.l.

The primary broadcast channel is the Telegram channel "the frequency". Every key moment · bando opening, curatorial consultation opening and closing, selection outcome, sell-out, archive piece commission · is announced there first, before any other channel. We do not run a newsletter and we do not spam inboxes. The Vora space at voiceofthenewera.com/space.html?org=squizito is where the open commission selections live and where the community gathers.

The atelier was founded by a small team operating the SQUIZITO Atelier brand under Vora S.r.l. from Milan. The Amministratore Delegato (managing director) of Vora S.r.l. is the legally responsible signatory on every selection outcome (verbale di selezione · section 02.04 below). The founder personally chairs the selection committee for every drop of STRATA Series I.

Anyone, anywhere in the world, 18 years of age or older. The 18+ rule is binding · Italian law (art. 2 of the Civil Code, capacity to act · art. 108 of Law 633/1941, disposition of economic-utilisation rights in a copyright work) requires full capacity to act for the commission contract and the exclusive licence to be perfected. We verify the date of birth against an identity document at the BAT and Author Declarations stage (see 03.05 below) before production is authorised; a designer who turns out to be under 18 cannot proceed and the runner-up cascade in §11 of the legal_terms applies. You don't need a VAT number to submit a proposal · the VAT or invoicing channel requirement only kicks in if you are selected and need to receive the royalty (see section 03.07 below). Single-author submissions only · we don't accept co-authored or collective proposals at this stage, because the commission contract is single-signatory. We may revisit this from drop 002 onward.

• One print design destined to live on a t-shirt (we adapt to the other two formats with your approval if you're selected).
• Background colour: SQUIZITO acid yellow #CBF224 · this is non-negotiable · the print itself can use up to four spot colours over the background.
• 1 to 4 images of the design at low resolution (max 1500 × 2000 px, max 2 MB per file) · JPG or PNG (PDF accepted only for vector source). The high-resolution master files come later if you're selected.
• 100 to 2000 characters of English-language description of the work, your process, and the connection to the drop's theme.
• Screen-print ready · the print becomes a physical object made by hand in Milan.

AI-assisted use is permitted, but only as auxiliary instrument: ideation, upscaling, colour correction. The final creative selection, arrangement, and expressive content must originate from your own human authorship. Pure AI output (an image generated by a prompt with no human creative direction) is not eligible. This aligns with the U.S. Copyright Office Report on Copyright and AI Part 2 (January 2025) and the EU AI Act. If shortlisted, you may be asked to produce work-in-progress files within 10 business days as evidence of human authorship.

No · one proposal per person. We read the strongest single piece, not three average ones. Choose your best work.

The Amministratore Delegato of Vora S.r.l. (the legal entity operating the SQUIZITO Atelier brand) signs the verbale di selezione naming you as the Selected Designer. We contact you within 7 calendar days of the consultation close. You then have 10 business days to: (a) countersign the commission contract we send you (electronic signature, eIDAS-compliant); (b) deliver high-resolution master files of the design ready for screen-print production (vector or 3000 × 4000 px at 300 DPI minimum); (c) review and sign the Approvazione BAT e Dichiarazioni dell'Autore · a single bilingual document covering the pre-print proof approval, your IP and human-authorship warranties, the elected invoicing channel (see 03.07), tax-residency self-certification, sanctions and PEP declarations, GDPR consent, and pre-authorisation of the technical adaptations required for screen-print and the NFT certificate. Production starts only after this document is returned signed; sale of the drop begins shortly after.

Identity and age verification. As part of the BAT (step c), you self-declare your date of birth under artt. 46-47 D.P.R. 445/2000 (statutory self-declaration · false statements carry criminal liability under art. 76) and attach a copy of a valid identity document as Annex C. The atelier verifies the declared date of birth against the identity document before authorising production: this is the second-layer check on top of your self-declaration. A designer who turns out to be under 18 cannot proceed · Italian law (art. 2 c.c. capacità di agire · art. 108 LDA for the disposition of economic rights) requires majority age and full capacity to enter the commission contract and grant the exclusive licence. In that event we apply the next-ranked-candidate cascade described under §11 of the legal_terms; the original selection lapses, no obligations attach to either party beyond the §3 indemnity for breach of the §2(f) warranty, and the runner-up is offered the commission.

Licence scope you grant if you sign. Selection itself does not transfer rights · the commission contract does. If you countersign, you grant Vora S.r.l. an exclusive, worldwide, perpetual licence to use the design only within the scope of the relevant SQUIZITO drop (manufacture and sale of the limited series, the on-chain certificate of authenticity, and directly related marketing and editorial communication). The licence is bounded to that scope: outside it you retain every right · gallery and fine-art prints, monographs, exhibitions, personal portfolio, and re-licensing to non-competing applications · subject only to a 24-month non-compete on direct apparel reproduction of the same design starting from the drop launch date. Italian moral rights under artt. 20-24 LDA (paternity, integrity, opposition to prejudicial modifications) stay with you and are transmissible to your heirs under art. 23 LDA. Between the verbale di selezione and the commission contract you retain the right to decline; if you decline, no obligations attach to either party and the consultation-phase licence terminates immediately.

You keep every right in your work. SQUIZITO does not reproduce, modify, or commercially exploit any non-selected proposal in any way. You can request takedown from public display at any time by emailing hello@squizito.me · we action it within 30 days. Vora's own platform retention applies separately under their terms.

If your design is selected, the commission contract grants you a 20% royalty on the Net Revenue of the drop. Net Revenue is gross customer payments minus VAT, refunds, payment-processor fees, and pass-through shipping (NOT minus marketing, photography, manufacturing, or overhead). The royalty is payable only if the drop sells out (all units in the drop's limited series). No sell-out, no royalty · this is the explicit risk allocation. Payment happens within 60 days of the sell-out date, by bank transfer in EUR. If the drop hasn't sold out within 36 months of launch, the exclusivity component of the licence lapses and you can re-license the work elsewhere (no royalty is owed for the partial sales).

One of three channels recognised by Italian tax law:

• (a) Commercial invoice with VAT · for designers with an Italian Partita IVA in regime ordinario, an EU VAT number, or an equivalent foreign business / tax registration number that allows issuing a commercial invoice.
• (b) Regime forfettario invoice · for designers with an Italian Partita IVA in regime forfettario (turnover ≤ €85,000) · you provide a written declaration that the royalty is correlated to your forfettario activity.
• (c) Ricevuta per cessione diritti d'autore occasionale · for Italian natural persons without a Partita IVA · the standard channel for one-shot copyright assignments (TUIR art. 53, c. 2, lett. b). A €2 marca da bollo applies if the gross amount exceeds €77.47.

International designers outside Italy use channel (a) with the applicable double-taxation treaty rate (we collect a tax-residency certificate from your country before payment to apply the reduced rate). US designers get 0% under the 1999 treaty for copyright royalties; UK is 8%, France is 5%, Germany is 0%, Japan 10%, India 20%.

No. The SQUIZITO open commission selection is structured as a bando di selezione per affidamento di incarico di design (public selection notice for the award of a design commission) under art. 2222 of the Italian Codice Civile, combined with a licence of economic-utilisation rights under L. 633/1941. Three constitutive elements of Italian Presidential Decree 26 October 2001 No. 430 are structurally absent: (i) no promise of a prize to the public (the public notice is an offer to enter into a commission contract); (ii) no promotional purpose of the operation itself (our commercial benefit comes from selling the drop's finished units, not from running the selection); (iii) no award of a prize (the 20% is contractual compensation under a commission contract, not a prize). Confirmed by legal research (sources: Normattiva, MIMIT, Agenzia delle Entrate, Sole 24 Ore).

The bando di selezione is the same legal structure Italian public administrations use under D.Lgs. 36/2023 art. 46 (concorsi di progettazione · explicitly outside DPR 430/2001). It establishes the operation as a contractual procurement of a creative service, not a consumer promotion. The verbale di selezione signed by the AD documents the discretionary selection (multi-criteria scoring), which protects against any later reclassification attempt. This is the structural exit from concorso a premi · not just a defensive carve-out.

Italian Codice Civile art. 2222 (contratto d'opera), Italian Civil Code arts. 1336, 1353, 1989, 2220, 2702. Italian Law 22 April 1941 No. 633 (copyright law) arts. 20-22, 107-119. DPR 633/1972 (VAT law) art. 3 c.4 lett. a, art. 7-ter. DPR 600/1973 (income tax law) art. 25. TUIR (DPR 917/1986) art. 53 c.2 lett. b, art. 54 c.8, art. 110 c.10-12bis. D.Lgs. 82/2005 (Codice dell'Amministrazione Digitale) art. 20 c.1-bis. L. 190/2014 (regime forfettario). EU regulations applicable to Italy: GDPR (679/2016), eIDAS (910/2014), Rome I (593/2008), DSA (2022/2065), AI Act (2024/1689).

The legal frame · "B2B procurement of a creative commission service" · is recognised everywhere and structurally invisible to prize-promotion regimes worldwide: USA federal + state (16 CFR + NY GBL §369-e + CA B&P §17539.1 + FL §849.094); France code de la consommation L121-36; Germany UWG; UK Gambling Act 2005 s.14; Brazil Lei 5.768/1971 (SECAP); Japan 景品表示法; Korea Fair Labeling Act. The contract is governed by Italian law with exclusive Milan jurisdiction, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the designer's country of habitual residence under Rome I art. 6 where the designer qualifies as a consumer.

Data you provide to Vora is processed under Vora's privacy notice. If you are selected, SQUIZITO collects the minimum data needed to perform the commission contract and pay the royalty (legal name, postal address, VAT or tax ID, bank details, tax-residency certificate, identity document for BAT Annex C). Lawful bases: Article 6(1)(b) GDPR (contract performance and pre-contractual measures) and Article 6(1)(c) (legal obligations · Italian accounting / tax retention under art. 2220 c.c.). Retention period: 10 years for fiscal records (Italian accounting law). You have all the GDPR rights of access / rectification / erasure (subject to retention obligations) / restriction / portability / objection / consent withdrawal / no automated decision-making. Exercise them by writing to privacy@squizito.me. The full SQUIZITO privacy notice (controller identity, processor list including Stripe, Resend, AWS, Alchemy; cross-border transfer safeguards; cookie state; on-chain certificate disclosure) is published at squizito.me/privacy/.

No. The commission contract is governed by Italian law and subject to exclusive Milan jurisdiction, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the designer's country of habitual residence under Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 (Rome I). Where Italian law conflicts with your country's mandatory home protections, those mandatory protections prevail to the extent they are more protective of you. You may also pursue out-of-court resolution via the European Commission Online Dispute Resolution platform.

It depends on your invoicing channel and country of tax residence. Summary by counterparty type:

• Italian company (S.r.l. / S.p.A. / S.n.c. / S.a.s.) · no withholding at source; recipient self-assesses IRES.
• Italian natural person, channel (a) or (c) · 20% ritenuta d'acconto on 75% of gross = 15% effective (12% if under 35).
• Italian natural person, channel (b) regime forfettario · 0% withholding · subject to the correlation declaration.
• EU business with VIES-verified VAT · reverse charge on the IVA side, withholding reduced to treaty rate (typically 0-10% for copyright royalties).
• Non-EU business or person · default 30% withholding, reducible to treaty rate with tax-residency certificate + beneficial-ownership declaration + Modello Domanda di Applicazione collected before payment.

The legal_terms section 7 of every selection bando carries the full matrix.

No. The SQUIZITO certificates are ERC-721 + ERC-5192 soulbound tokens · non-transferable by construction. locked() returns true forever, all transfer functions revert. Because they cannot be traded, they fall outside the scope of MiCA (Regulation (EU) 2023/1114) as financial instruments / crypto-assets. The certificate is an authenticity record, not a financial product · the garment is the addressed entity, not a wallet.

Yes · subject to one jurisdiction-specific wording qualifier (Australia). The reason: no jurisdiction worldwide creates a free-standing legal right to exchange a non-defective good for a change of mind. The protected consumer right, where it exists, is the right to a refund (recesso) for distance sales · which SQUIZITO preserves in full per FAQ 04.07 and the Terms of Sale § 04.

The CJEU judgment in Möbel Kraft (C-529/19, 21 October 2020) confirms that limited-edition serial-numbered goods do not engage the "personalised goods" carve-out at art. 16(c) Dir. 2011/83/EU and art. 59 lett. c) Italian Cod. Cons., because personalisation must originate from the consumer's specifications, not from the seller's editorial choice. The Seller therefore does not invoke that carve-out, and the Buyer's right of withdrawal is preserved in full. The "no exchange" element of the policy is, separately, a lawful commercial decision in every jurisdiction surveyed: Italy/EU/UK/FR/DE/ES (Cod. Cons. art. 56 protects refund · exchange is commercial), Brazil (CDC art. 49), South Korea (ECPA art. 17), Japan (Specified Commercial Transactions Act art. 15-3), US (no federal cooling-off online; CA/NY/FL disclosure regimes).

Australia carve-out. Australian Consumer Law (ACL Sch. 2 ss. 18, 29(1)(m)) treats a flat unqualified "no refund / no exchange" as misleading. The Terms of Sale §03 therefore carries the explicit qualifier "except where required by applicable consumer-protection law", which preserves the ACL consumer guarantees in full and renders the policy compliant for Australian buyers.