Tactility

So what's new?..A very tactile range, that is all texture. 

I was/am involved in work currently that had us delve into quite a bit of research into indigenous plants and this left me looking at the trees and plants around me with a sharper curiosity and scrutiny. The textures, the patterns the geometry the repeats, always in a state of change. Even when it’s hardly noticeable day to day until you pass by months later and you are utterly blown away by the beauty of it all.

The idea of shedding or losing to gain and become whole again. The wisdom of nature.

This new drop is a handful of pieces, all with handmade elements, made for one of a kind women. 

Getting Reacquainted

We’ve been around for a minute and most importantly survived 2025! 😫😵😵‍💫🤢🫩.

We are deeply grateful. So... what did we learn. 

That things we’ve always loved and are drawn to are still the same … we look for them everywhere, they are our lenses they form part of our perception. 

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Good things still take time

These things are, history, a sense of collective cultural memory, an obsession with reinterpreting ethnic dress codes, care, details, nature, plants, flowers, their stages of growth, emergence, rising, blooming, stagnancy, retreat, death, eventual re-emergence ..an infinite constant cycle. Hope, Life itself, deep empathy for others and ourselves too ( in a year where making clothes has felt pretty useless & impotent). Music to both soothe and energise.  All these influences come through in the textiles we use, how we are obsessed with fabric manipulation (pleats! Yes guilty) weaving, volume, tassels, pieces are never just one thing there is almost always a tension, a duality.

All these things are present in every piece we’ve touched and made throughout our few years around. 

Evidence I suppose to the love, obsession and just sheer joy and surprise to turn a 2 dimensional surface textile into a thing that can be embodied, a garment that can have so much feeling and the ability to make you feel so good about yourself ( if clothes do that for you) for us this is the magic! 

I started making my own clothes at 12 yrs old and that feeling of “creating” something  so purposeful that comes to life the moment you put it on! That  lights you up, makes you feel something. That’s pretty magical & that feeling has never left. 

I still believe in magic.

No trends in 2024.

All that glitters

The above statement was a headline of an article in Vogue magazine that got us thinking …

This year in clothing/ fashion was one of the most interesting!

Not everyone was slavishly committed to a single aesthetic (more like hopping around whatever TikTok was furiously spinning out at breakneck speed) no less…

What we choose to take from this is that we are not just one thing or this self-expression.

We are complex and forged by our different daily experiences; we grow, we age, we discover, and get discovered…. Like our planet, we are constantly moving and changing. We’ve (hopefully) gotten to a place where the idea of good taste has become individual, just light-hearted, fun self-expression, seeking nobody's approval. Yes, we have a value set, a compass ...a grounding: “We make treasures to be enjoyed for all kinds of dressing up or down.” That’s been our mission statement, a keyword here is to be enjoyed!  But for a minute, clothing became serious, filled with rules of what’s right or wrong, what’s in or out, very self-important. This passing year has been refreshing to see people throw caution to the wind and have fun with clothing and self-expression. It’s kept all of us on our toes looking around, fully engaged and entertained. We hope the coming year continues in the same spirit. More Joy.

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