Meet The Humans

👋 Hi, we're Tom & Alice

We’re the two human beans behind The Nine Lives Club — partners in life, business, and being emotionally manipulated by cats.

We’re creative people who love storytelling, design, and the chaos that comes with cat ownership. What started as us doodling our cats’ faces (and giving them unnecessarily serious job titles) turned into a whole community — and now, a brand.

🐾 Why We Built This Brand

Like most ideas, Nine Lives was born somewhere between a fur-covered hoodie and a midnight meow. We wanted to create something that didn’t just sell to cat lovers, but really spoke their language.

Nine Lives is about personality. It’s about identity. It’s about the weird, chaotic joy of loving a creature who sits on your laptop while you're working, but who you'd still take a bullet for.

It’s funny. It’s soft. It’s real. Just like cats.

❤️ As a Couple

We work well together because we bring different things to the table: creativity, strategy, relentless snack breaks, and a shared love of projects that mean something. We’re not just business partners — we’re partners in building ideas that people connect with.

This brand is a reflection of our humour, our home, and our shared love of good design and good storytelling. Also, cats. Obviously.

🐈 As Cat People

We don’t just love cats — we get them.
We live with them. We listen to them yell. We rearrange our seating to accommodate them. The cats we’ve drawn and written bios for? They’re all inspired by real-life chaos.

And speaking of real life: Harry, Tilly & Poppy are very real cats.
At the time of launching Nine Lives:

  • Harry is our 7-year-old black cat with a stare that could run a business.

  • Tilly is our 4/5-year-old black and white tuxedo who believes she’s royalty.

  • Poppy is our 12-week-old kitten, black and white but turning more brown tabby by the day — and already ruling the house.

They’re the inspiration behind so much of what we do here, and let’s be honest… we’re just the unpaid interns.

🧵 So, What’s TEEQ?

TEEQ is our original creative brand — a home for unique designs, original collections, and personal storytelling through fashion and lifestyle pieces. It was born from a desire to make things differently, to put individuality first, and to champion character over trend.

Alice launched teeq.co in 2017 to build clothing and concepts with heart — designs that mean something.

🤟🏼 The Nine Lives Club Is a Brand, by TEEQ

The Nine Lives Club is a little different. It needed its own space — its own voice, its own community, and its own identity.

It’s still us, still under the TEEQ umbrella, but this is a dedicated love letter to cat people. A spin-off brand with paws, claws, and personality. Think of it as a passion project with its own attitude — the cat to TEEQ’s human.