Vol. 01.
'INSIDE THE ATELIER'
Inside the Atelier is our way of opening the door, to the process, the work, and the person behind what we make.
For SS26, we collaborated with two artists. This is part one and it begins with Mandy Sade, whose hand-painted print is at the heart of this collection.
THE ARTIST.
Meet Mandy Sade. An artist who collects the world obsessively. Photography, fashion, film, worn magazines, centuries-old objects pulled from museum archives. Who believes that making something beautiful is an act of complete attention. Who only creates what genuinely moves her.
"I look at something and think — yes, that's it. Not because it's beautiful or not beautiful. Because it speaks to me."
That feeling of something speaking to you before you can explain why is exactly what we wanted in this collection. Mandy brought it. Entirely, unmistakably, her.
"I like it when things are a little strange. Not so beautiful. But not bad. Somewhere in the middle."
That somewhere in the middle is where the most interesting things are made. And where this collection found its heart.
THE PROCESS.
Art doesn't happen fast and the print Mandy created for our SS26 collection is proof of what patience, craft, and complete dedication to the work actually looks like.
Every element painted by hand. Every colour built from scratch. Not adjusted, not corrected, but remade entirely when it wasn't right. Because she knows, and we know, that the difference between something that has been changed and something that has been truly made is felt long before it is seen.
"If things are fast, it doesn't feel good to me. That's not my thing. I wish it were. But it isn't."
Eight hours per composition. One night to leave it alone. One morning to return and find out what it actually became.
"You have a mission in your head. Then it becomes a process. And hopefully what comes out is better than the mission you started with."
It was. Every time.
THE PRINT.
A table after the meal. The stillness that follows.
This is what Mandy saw when we gave her the brief. Not a dinner in motion, but the moment just after. The table not yet cleared. The light still warm. That specific, unhurried quality she is always searching for in the things she collects, the images she keeps, the objects she pulls toward her.
Pears on a white plate. Oysters, half-open. Tulips in a blue ceramic vase. A striped parasol cutting across a pale sky. Mediterranean tiles stacked quietly in the background. Every element chosen because it spoke to her not for obvious beauty, but for that feeling of recognition before understanding. The same instinct she has always trusted.
Every object painted by hand. Every colour mixed, layered, and built from scratch. The colours move between dusty rose and powder blue, warm gold and off-white. The palette of a morning that hasn't decided to become afternoon. Nothing loud. Nothing saturated. Just that particular Mediterranean light, held still.
This is not an illustration of SS26. It is Mandy's extension of it. Her interpretation of the same feeling we were building toward. A vision that began in a brief, passed through her hands, and came back as something we couldn't have made alone. Worn close to the body, carried through the day.
From her hands. To yours.
' THE PRINTED SET '
Three pieces. One artwork.
