桥的背后·
The bridge is the product
Most platforms sell clothes and call the infrastructure a cost. We think it is the other way round.
Camille Ferrand·6 min read
The Journal
Studio floors, indigo vats, and the paperwork nobody photographs
We write about the labels we carry and the mechanics of getting them here. Some of it is about cloth. Some of it is about customs. All of it is the same story.
设计师专访·
Nine hours, one jumper, eleven machines
Sōng Atelier runs a knitting machine built in 1948 and refuses to let anything else make the shoulders. We went to find out why.
Tobias Reiner·8 min read
毕业品牌故事·
Lín Studio, two years after Paris
The first label to graduate from LePont opened its own atelier in the 3rd. It also stayed. The founder explains the least sentimental decision they made.
Camille Ferrand·7 min read
工艺与溯源·
Twenty-two dips, and the point where blue stops
In a Xi'an courtyard, Yǒng feeds a vat rather than replacing it. Somewhere past the fifteenth dip, indigo becomes something else entirely.
Mei Halvorsen·5 min read
桥的背后·
Compliance, without the fear
European product rules are not the hard part. Reading them at midnight in your fourth language is. Here is how the concierge actually works.
Anneke Vos·6 min read
设计师专访·
Buying leather the way you buy fish
Dawn Market only works with offcuts. That single constraint decides the shape of every bag it makes.
Tobias Reiner·5 min read
The dispatch
Know which labels crossed, before they sell out
One email a month. The designers joining this season, the ones who have opened their own doors, and the occasional dispatch from a studio floor in Suzhou or Chengdu. Nothing else.