A closer look at where and how our products are made.

It's easy to forget that behind every product there are people, and highly skilled ones: people who know the machines, the materials and the small details better than anyone. To make good products, you need the best people in each of those crafts.

We have worked with most of our factories for four or five years now. We have visited their workshops, we know the people inside, and we talk with them almost every day, because developing a product is something you build over time.

We produce in small runs: hundreds of pieces, sometimes a few thousand, rarely more. Most companies around us order tens or hundreds of thousands of pieces per product. So finding partners with the right technical machines, the right materials and the patience for our complicated ideas is genuinely rare.

We're proud we found them. We take care of those relationships, and they take care of our products.

One thing that amazed us on our first trips: in China, whole cities and regions are organized around one type of product. Necklaces, bags, t-shirts, knitwear, each has its own ecosystem. In a single city you'll find the people who know how to make it, the machines, the people who repair the machines and the fabrics, all in one place.

Everything there is set up to help you make things. It changes what's possible for a small brand like ours.

When you find the right people, they genuinely want to bring your project to life. That's not something to take for granted: we tried making things in France several times, and maybe we were just unlucky, but we spent more energy convincing people than building. In China, things clicked.

We're not closed to working anywhere else. It just has to click.

We're not here to lecture anyone. We learn by doing, every day. This is simply the best way we've found to bring our ideas to life while feeling comfortable with how they're made. It's not perfect and we won't pretend it is: we do our best with what we know today. If the way we work evolves, we'll explain that here too. We're always up for a conversation.

We also make some things closer to home. All our prints are printed in France for now, and our t-shirt range is being developed in Portugal, maybe sweaters next. There's no ranking between countries in any of this: we're just exploring several places at once, to keep learning how everything gets made.