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Linen
Linen behaves unlike anything else you own. It creases where you move and softens where you wear it, and after a season it stops looking new in the best possible way. We work with European flax and wash the cloth before it's cut, so it arrives already relaxed rather than stiff.
Linen
Linen is the oldest cloth we make anything from, and it still does something no other fibre manages: it gets better with use. The flax fibre is hollow, so it moves air rather than trapping it — which is why linen feels cool in heat and never clammy. And because the fibre is strong when wet, washing softens it instead of wearing it out.
Not all linen is the same. The long-fibre flax grown in the coastal belt running through Belgium, France and the Netherlands is the standard everything else is measured against — longer fibres mean smoother yarn, fewer slubs, and cloth that holds its shape rather than going limp. That's the linen we use.
We also garment-wash before cutting. Untreated linen arrives stiff and takes a season of wear to relax; washed linen starts where you'd want it to end up — softer hand, gentler drape, and the natural creasing reads as character rather than as something gone wrong.
Right now this is the shirt dress. More linen arrives in spring — shirts alongside the dresses. In the meantime, see the same easy shapes in other fibres at 100% cotton, or the full range at tops and dresses.
Machine wash cold on a gentle cycle and line dry or tumble on low. Linen wrinkles — that's the fibre doing what it does, not a flaw — and a warm iron on the reverse takes it out if you'd rather it didn't. Follow the care label on each piece.