The Label Lab

The Label Lab came from being tired of how easy it is for a whole person to get reduced to a diagnosis, code, chart, checkbox, or symptom list.

I know diagnoses can matter. Mine have. They can give answers, direction, and sometimes finally put a name to something you’ve been living with for years.

But they still don’t explain the whole person.

That’s what this collection is about.

I took the clinical language — case files, barcodes, intake forms, specimen labels, warning stamps, diagnostic codes — and turned it back around.

Not to make diagnosis the enemy.

To make the point that the person attached to it is always more complicated than the paperwork.

SUBJECT CANNOT BE SUMMARIZED.
CODE THE SYMPTOMS. NOT THE PERSON.

That’s The Label Lab.

Chaos Theøry Label Lab clinical mental health streetwear collection

The Label Lab came from being tired of how easy it is for a whole person to get reduced to a diagnosis, code, chart, checkbox, or symptom list.

I know diagnoses can matter. Mine have. They can give answers, direction, and sometimes finally put a name to something you’ve been living with for years.

But they still don’t explain the whole person.

That’s what this collection is about.

I took the clinical language — case files, barcodes, intake forms, specimen labels, warning stamps, diagnostic codes — and turned it back around.

Not to make diagnosis the enemy.

To make the point that the person attached to it is always more complicated than the paperwork.

SUBJECT CANNOT BE SUMMARIZED.
CODE THE SYMPTOMS. NOT THE PERSON.

That’s The Label Lab.