
Ten Pieces.
One System.
Hover each card to read the process note from the maker.

The Overcoat
Piece 01 — Boiled Merino
"Eleven months on a single shoulder seam. The block was cut and recut until the drape fell without a single pin."

Afonso Carvalho
Pattern Cutter · Porto
"Forty years with the same shears. He says a good trouser block should feel like an argument resolved."

The Trouser
Piece 04 — Japanese Wool
"The waistband is hand-felled. A machine could do it in seconds. We prefer the four hours."

The Shirt
Piece 02 — Irish Linen
"Laundered eighty times before it reached us. We needed to know exactly how it would soften."

Kenji Watanabe
Dye Master · Kyoto
"True black without synthetic pigment takes six separate baths. He has never used a shortcut."

The Knit
Piece 06 — Cashmere Blend
"The gauge is so tight it took three weeks to find a mill willing to attempt it."

The Jacket
Piece 03 — Unlined Wool
"No lining. The interior seams are as considered as the exterior. Wear it inside out if you like."

The System
All Ten Pieces
"Every piece was designed to work with every other piece. There are no exceptions and no orphans."

The Atelier
Porto · Est. 1987
"The space has no natural light by design. Every decision about colour is made under the same tungsten lamp."
Made by Hand.
Named by Name.

Afonso Carvalho
Pattern Cutter · Porto, Portugal
"Eleven months on a single trouser block."
Afonso works from a third-floor studio with no phone signal. He believes a pattern is not finished when it is correct — only when it is inevitable. The Capsule trouser went through forty-three iterations before he sent us the final block. We did not rush him.
Materials
Japanese Wool, Irish Linen, Boiled Merino
Method
Full canvas construction, hand-basted fitting

Kenji Watanabe
Dye Master · Kyoto, Japan
"True black without a single synthetic pigment."
Kenji’s family has been dyeing fabric in the same Kyoto workshop for three generations. The black he achieves — a depth that seems to absorb rather than reflect light — requires six separate natural dye baths over four days. Every batch is slightly different. That is the point.
Dye Source
Persimmon tannin, iron mordant, sumac
Process
Six-bath natural immersion, 96 hours per piece
Reserve Your
Place in the System.
We are making a fixed number of each piece. When the count is full, it is full. No restock. No waitlist extension.
People already holding their size
7 of 10 pieces at capacity
Ten pieces. Limited run.
7 of 10 pieces at capacity