Fewer, better
Two collections a year and nothing in between. A piece enters the range when it earns a place next to what is already there, not because a calendar says so.
Since 2016
Clothes that stay
Zivo Store began with a single coat and an argument about linings. We make a small number of pieces each season, in fabrics we can name, cut so they can be worn for years rather than a season.
The house
We are a small studio: a pattern room, a fabric library and a shipping bench, in that order of floor space. Everything is drawn here and made by six workshops we have worked with since the beginning. We visit each of them twice a year.
Design starts from wear rather than from a mood board. A coat is drawn around what goes in its pockets, a knit around how it sits after a hundred washes. That is slower, and it is the reason the range is small.
How we work
Named mills
Wool from Biella, cotton from Osaka, cashmere spun in Inner Mongolia. Every fabric on a product page names where it came from, because a fibre percentage alone tells you very little.
Made to be repaired
Seams are finished so they can be opened. Buttons are stocked for a decade. A coat that can be mended is worn twice as long, which is the only sustainability claim we are willing to make plainly.
Journal
Notes from the studio: fabric trials, mill visits, and the occasional piece that did not make it into a collection and why. Published when there is something worth saying, which is roughly monthly.
The journal is not part of this demonstration build. In production it is a separate content source rendered through the same design system.
Careers
We hire rarely and keep people a long time. Open roles are listed here when they exist; speculative notes from pattern cutters, garment technologists and repair specialists are always read.
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