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GO-TO GARMENTS, THAT GO WITH EVERYTHING, WHEREVER YOU GO
Summer means traveling, for many. And Traveling means anticipation. You imagine the places you'll go to and imagine the sartorial demands each will bring.
Traveling, however, also means a confrontation with the limitations of the suitcases; the occasions awaiting may be endless, but the dimensions of your luggage are not.
The Capsule Suitcase showcases the many directions our garments can take, stylistically. Even though we may go anywhere, we rely on simplicity, with garments we’ll always return to.
Among the many corridors we venture through in the complexity of our lives, there are but few that will always remain familiar to us. The hallway of our homes, its arrangement ingrained into our minds, committed to provide our daily essentials, ready to embrace the tiredness in our limbs and minds, unconcerned with the soil under our shoes or the water dripping off our coats.
The hallway is where our emotions tend to peak, where final words are uttered as we say good bye, declarations of love are echoed as partners part, ambition prepares itself for its daily goals and challenges, where chants of success and sighs of relief are loudest as we return home.
The hallway, the epicenter of initial and final emotions, a rich archive of nostalgia, and a gateway between life's inside's comforts and outside's thrills.
To strangers, it signifies a teaser to the peculiar nature of our homes, a first impression to the things we value; the hallway is to our house what a handshake is to our character.
Essem design's vision is based on the defining, many-sided, and sometimes overlooked role the hallway plays in our homes and offices, emphasizing its potential to elevate our lives with objects that emanate an uncompromising striving for craft, timelessness, functionality, and sympathy.
Sweatshirts with patched elbows, jeans with repaired crotches, patinated denim jackets, re-bleached white tees, knitwear with tonal patches, shirts with fixed cuffs, jackets with re-attached buttons, worn garments of all categories that still pass as new, photoshoot samples with cleaned up makeup stains, shrinkage tested t-shirts, pre-loved garments, never-loved garments, garments doomed to the back end of someone's wardrobe but later found and sent to us for a new lease of life, a shirt that once had a wine stain from a party that went on for too long, jeans with their back pockets reattached, jeans that saw the dirt a few too many times, jeans with their zippers replaced (thanks YKK!), T-shirts that once had their collars separated from the torso from an argument that got out of hand, knitwear with their holes knitted closed, knitwear shaven clean from those characteristic tiny pilling balls, flannels still as soft as ever; M-Regular garments washed so hot they re now a perfect S-Short, swimwear that clearly wasnt used only for swimming, jean jackets with new buttons hammered into them, various versions of the pique polo from the many attempts of creating the perfect one, worker jackets that had their pockets worn out from teo much work, hoodies with their strings replaced, shirts with a color faded but a future still so bright, pants that shrunk (or who's owner grew), oxford shirts washed but still as soft and substantial as ever, ligntweight t-shirts worn 300 times but have that same amount to go, linen shirts that only get better with every wash anyway, anything merino without loss of their original sheen and softness, shorts that end at the knee but don't end here, re-coated coats that had once lost their water repellency from owners we guess can only be from either London, Seattle or Montreal. Too many stories to be reduced to this piece of vinyl.
Come in and witness it all for yourself, this Spring, here at THE RESTORE.