Yes No Maybe

Yes No Maybe is a London-based streetwear label, established by Ben Farleigh in 2004.
The brand produces t-shirts, sweatshirts, headwear, and accessories featuring original designs by Farleigh and other designers, as well as images taken from popular culture. A number of Farleigh’s designs play with the idea of indecision suggested by the brand name. Many of Yes No Maybe’s products are finished by hand, using spray painting or bleaching techniques.
In 2008 Farleigh was named in Heeb Magazine's up-and-coming 100.
Collaborations
Yes No Maybe has collaborated with a number of designers and manufacturers. The New Era Cap Company has been producing caps for Yes No Maybe since 2006, including the Fez, a tribute to the late comedian Tommy Cooper.
Manchester singer-songwriter Gideon Conn always wears Yes No Maybe hats and t-shirts in performance. Yes No Maybe produces official Gideon Conn merchandise, and Conn designed YNM’s “Ransom” t-shirt. Artist and toy designer Candykiller has produced several designs for Yes No Maybe.
Glamour model and writer Alex Sim-Wise appeared in a Yes No Maybe photoshoot in 2007.
The label features a design from prolific UK “scribble artist” Jon Burgerman.
Yes No Maybe has produced a cap to support Chanty Poe’s 2008 debut album, “Yeahh”.
Inventions
The “Streetglam” range is created using a secret bleaching technique; each piece is individually created by hand. This was first pioneered in 2005. In 2007, Farleigh created the 4-way t-shirt, which can be worn inside out and back to front. Farleigh also designed the New Era 59Fifty Velcro Patch cap in 2008.
Early History
Having graduated from De Montfort University with a 2:1 in Product Design in 2002, Farleigh started experimenting with t-shirt designs, using obsolete screen printing equipment inherited from his father’s business. Most early prints featured designs scavenged from books and comics, and included the phrase “Yes No Maybe” as a slogan. Farleigh continued by experimenting printing on other items of vintage and second-hand clothing, such as dinner shirts and boiler suits.
Keep Calm and Carry On
The "Keep Calm and Carry On" World War II poster design was introduced by the Ministry of Information in 1939. In 2001, a copy of the poster was discovered by the owner of the second-hand bookstore Barter Books in a box of old books from a customer's attic, and it was reprinted for sale. Yes No Maybe is the original producer of the Keep Calm and Carry On T-shirt, which first appeared in 2004.

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