Memento Vivere | Skeleton Floral Horse | Women's UPF50+ Sleeveless Quarter-Zip Top

Memento Vivere

Women's UPF50+ Sleeveless Quarter-Zip Top | Nadine & Ripley

Memento Vivere brings Nadine & Ripley artwork to a sleeveless quarter-zip top for warm-weather days, travel and time outdoors.

Remember to live.

Garment Details

• Sleeveless design with a stand collar and short front zipper.
• Cool-feel polyester fabric, 180 GSM.
• UPF 50+ fabric rating. Sun coverage applies only to skin covered by the garment.
• All-over printed artwork; decorative effects are printed, not metallic or embroidered.
• Available sizes: S–6XL. Choose your size using this product’s measurements below.

Care

Hand or machine wash. Do not bleach.

Print Notes

Product images show the design and garment style. Colors and artwork placement may vary slightly with screen settings, lighting and production. Please refer to the product images and size guide when making your selection.

Size Guide (cm)

Supplier-provided garment measurements in centimetres. Please allow a measurement variation of 2–3 cm. Refer to this garment’s size-chart image and measurement instructions; sizing differs between styles. If you are unsure how a measurement is defined, please contact us before ordering.

The Story Behind the Art

Remember to Live.

"Death is inevitable. Living is the part we get to choose."

Bones usually tell us that something has ended.

Flowers tell us something is still growing.

Blood tells us we were here.

And spirit asks the inconvenient question:

What are you going to do with the time between?

Memento Vivere™ was created around a simple idea hidden inside a very dark piece of artwork:

There is life in death.

Not as something tragic.

Not as something frightening.

As a reminder.

A black baroque horse rises through roses, lilies, antique silver, gemstones, skeletal ornaments, and electric currents of blue and violet.

Across its living body appears the suggestion of bone—mortality worn almost like ceremonial armor.

But the horse itself is not dead.

Quite the opposite.

It is powerful.

Moving.

Alive.

Memento Vivere.

Remember to live.

The Story Behind the Artwork

The phrase Memento Vivere is commonly understood as:

Remember to live.

It stands almost as a response to the better-known Memento Mori — remember that you must die.

One reminds us of mortality.

The other asks what we intend to do about it.

That tension became the foundation of this design.

The horse represents life in motion.

Not delicate life.

Not passive life.

The kind that rears, breathes, fights, heals, ages, scars, changes, and keeps moving anyway.

Across the black coat, skeletal imagery reveals what lies beneath every living thing.

Bone.

Structure.

Mortality.

But around it, flowers continue to bloom.

Jewels catch the light.

Metalwork curls through the composition.

Color refuses to disappear.

Throughout the artwork, each major color carries meaning.

Red represents blood.

The physical pulse of life.

Passion.

Heat.

The proof that something still lives beneath the surface.

Blue represents spirit.

The unseen part.

Memory.

Energy.

The things that remain difficult to explain and impossible to measure.

Purple represents dignity, sovereignty, and the value of life itself.

Historically associated with royalty, rarity, and ceremony, it gives the design a sense of reverence rather than darkness for darkness' sake.

And among all of it grow roses and lilies.

Life emerging beside mortality.

Beauty existing without pretending death does not.

The message is not:

Do not die.

None of us gets that option.

The message is much simpler.

While you're here... live.

FIELD GUIDE

Figure: Memento Vivere™

Common Name: The Living Reliquary

Classification: Baroque Equine • Floral Memento • Wearable Reminder

Habitat: Midnight gardens • Old stone courtyards • Moonlit arenas • Forgotten chapels • Anywhere roses insist on growing through the cracks

Realm: Somewhere Between Bone & Bloom

Symbols: Horse • Skeleton • Rose • Lily • Spine • Crescent Moon • Blood • Spirit • Jewel

Colors: Midnight Black • Blood Red • Spirit Blue • Royal Violet • Antique Silver • Gunmetal

Disposition: Defiant • Regal • Restless • Alive

Known For: Wearing mortality openly, refusing to surrender beauty to darkness, and making an unnecessarily dramatic entrance whenever ordinary walking would have been perfectly sufficient.

Symbolism:

Bone — Mortality

Everything living carries its ending within it.

Flower — Life

Life does not wait for perfect conditions before blooming.

Red — Blood

The physical proof that you are still here.

Blue — Spirit

The part of life that cannot be held in your hand.

Purple — Sovereignty

The reminder that a life does not need to be endless to be valuable.

Traveler's Advice:

If you find flowers growing among the bones...

leave them.

If the night turns blue around you...

keep walking.

If you hear hoofbeats where no horse should be...

look up.

And if something reminds you that one day all of this ends...

good.

Now do something with today.

Memento Vivere.

Remember to live.