When we first talked about building an atelier, we weren’t thinking about growth. We were thinking about responsibility.
We wanted a place where ideas could live before they became products. A place where we could work slowly, make mistakes, and adjust things by hand. A place where the process wasn’t hidden from us — or from the people doing the work.
An atelier is not a factory. It’s a workshop. A laboratory. A room full of tools and people and unfinished things. It’s where fabrics are tested, patterns are cut, and samples are made and remade until they feel right. It’s where one idea can become five different versions instead of one perfect copy.
Most of all, it’s where we can decide how something gets made.
Work That Respects the Worker
One of our core beliefs is simple: makers of well-made products deserve to make a fair profit and a living wage. That belief isn’t just a line in a values list — it’s a decision we make every day in the atelier.
The people in our atelier are not contract labor. They are not temporary hands brought in for speed. They work with us, consistently, building skill over time and shaping the products from start to finish.
They are paid fairly.
They earn a living wage.
They work in good conditions.
They take pride in what they make.
This is not piecework. It’s careful work — the kind that requires attention, patience, and judgment. When someone makes a jacket or a pair of shoes in our atelier, they know what it is and where it’s going. They know it will be worn, traveled in, and lived with.
Good products come from good lives — and that belief shows up in the way we structure the work itself.
Making as a Form of Choice
Having our own atelier means we can choose differently.
We can work with surplus and deadstock fabrics instead of ordering new ones.
We can cut around flaws instead of throwing materials away.
We can change a pattern when a fabric asks for something else.
We can make ten instead of ten thousand.
That freedom shapes the way our products look and feel. A single coat might exist in several variations. A shoe might be made from one rug and never repeated. What you receive is tied to a moment — a textile we found, a technique we learned, a solution that worked.
Fast fashion depends on sameness.
Our atelier depends on attention.
Made for Use
We don’t make things for display.
Our products are meant to be worn, lived in, and passed down. They are made for movement and weather and daily life — for walking, working, and traveling. When something is made with care, it tends to be treated that way in return.
This is why we don’t chase seasons.
This is why our restocks never look identical.
This is why no two pieces are ever quite alike.
The work stays human, and the objects do too.
Core Beliefs, in Material Form
The atelier is where our beliefs take shape.
Living wages become paychecks.
Sustainability becomes material choice.
Respect becomes working conditions.
Story becomes something you can wear.
We didn’t build an atelier to make more things.
We built it to make things more honestly.
It’s not just where our products come from.
It’s how we decide what deserves to exist at all.
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