Every jacket carries a place, a craft, and the people who kept it alive.
Lofoten · Harris · Tōhoku · Kochkor · Chinchero · Amami ŌshimaWe don't design seasons. We design chapters. Each one begins where people learned to live with cold, wind or hard work, and with the craft they made to do it: a fishery, a loom, a needle, a dye bath.
Every piece is made in small numbers and released by request. It comes with a numbered certificate that names the chapter behind it and the people who made it.
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Every winter, Arctic cod leave the Barents Sea and swim south to spawn among the Lofoten islands. People have gone out to meet them for more than a thousand years. This chapter is built on that fishery.
Inspired by the Lofoten cod fishery. The history here is real. Our pieces are made by [partner atelier — to be announced].
In deep winter the sun stays below the horizon over Lofoten for weeks. Yet the harbours stay open: a branch of the Gulf Stream keeps the sea around the islands far milder than the latitude suggests. Granite peaks rise straight out of that water.
Skrei are Arctic cod in their spawning years. They grow up in the Barents Sea, then swim south along the Norwegian coast to spawn in the waters around Lofoten in late winter. The name comes from an Old Norse word for "to wander".
For centuries, fishermen from all along the coast travelled to Lofoten each winter and rowed out in open boats. They lived in rorbuer, small cabins built on stilts at the water's edge. The name means roughly "rower's cabin", and many still stand, painted red, in villages like Reine and Hamnøy.
Much of the catch is tied in pairs, hung on tall wooden racks called hjell and left outside for months. Cold, wind and time dry it, with no salt at all. The result, stockfish, keeps for years. From the Middle Ages it was shipped south through Bergen and traded across Europe.
Our embroidery takes two lines from this story. The grid of the drying racks is stitched across the body. The skrei's route south is a single unbroken chain-stitch line, running from collar to hem.
Every piece in this chapter is released by request. Open a piece to see its provenance, sizing and care.
Atelier: [name, city]
Embroidery: [studio, city]
Wool: [mill or source]
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Sashiko means “little stabs”. From the Edo period on, farming and fishing households in Tōhoku quilted layers of fabric together to make work clothes stronger and warmer, and kept mending them for as long as the cloth held.
In Aomori the same need produced two counted-thread forms, kogin-zashi in Tsugaru and hishizashi in the Nanbu region, both worked into hemp.
This chapter is in preparation. Its pieces, the people who make them and the story behind them will be published here when it opens.
Inspired by the sashiko of Tōhoku. Our pieces will be made by [partner atelier — to be announced].