Founder and designer

Anais · Porto

Founded the label to answer one question about my own coat: where did the cloth come from. Ten pieces a season, a permanent line, four people making, twenty-two stockists in nine countries.

Head of patterns

Casa Teles · Guimarães

Ran the pattern room for a mid-size womenswear manufacturer. Learned exactly how much of a garment's cost is decided before anybody cuts anything.

Pattern cutter

Studio Verner · Antwerp

Three years cutting toiles for other designers, which is the best education there is and the worst paid.

Collection nine, Spring / Summer 26

Portugal Fashion, Porto

Shown on a rail rather than a runway, which cost less and sold more.

Undyed — nine years of a Porto atelier

MUDE, Lisbon

A retrospective of the permanent line, hung with the mill invoices for every cloth.

Deadstock: eleven rolls

Salone Sostenibile, Milan

Every piece cut from a single cancelled 2019 mill order, priced with the arithmetic shown on the wall.

The material ledger

Copenhagen Fashion Summit

A talk and a printed ledger, given away, on what traceability actually costs a small label.

Winner, small-scale manufacture

Portuguese Textile Prize

GOTS certified supply chain

Global Organic Textile Standard

Mulesing-free certification

Responsible Wool Standard

Shortlist, sustainable design

Iberian Design Awards

MA Fashion, cutting and construction

Royal Academy of Fine Arts · Antwerp

Two years and eleven toiles of a coat that never worked. I use the block from it to this day.

BA Textile Design

Faculdade de Belas Artes · Porto

Weaving and dyeing before pattern cutting, which is why the label starts at the cloth.