'Fashion shouldn't cost the earth'
Moments from the studio April 2021
April was an incredibly busy month in the Pajotten studio, we were hard at work making up lots of orders, while at the same time producing the samp...
Moments from the studio - March 2021
The Pajotten studio is always very busy, we work 6-7 days per week, with the studio being used to design, pattern cut, manufacture and wrap all o...
SLEEP
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Max Richter and Yulia Mahr’s film Sleep was an idea 28 years in the making. It was recorded in 2015, the first performance was in ...
ISSUE ONE Things to do during lockdown that are sustainable and free.
If you are anything like us then the last few months has bought with it positives and negatives, good days and bad days. It has been a time to p...
Face masks IMPORTANT PLEASE READ
FOR SALE
WE ARE NOW SELLING A REVISED PAJOTTEN FACE MASK (BOTH STYLES) FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO STRUGGLE WITH SEWING - PLEASE CHECK OUR 'FACE COVERING...
Pajotten and sustainability
When we started Pajotten we didn't set out on some huge crusade to make an environmental difference (honestly that's not possible - fashion is envi...
The history of the chore jacket
When we started Pajotten it was going to be a menswear company - producing mainly chore jackets, Ben had been wearing them for years, old secondhand ones worn patched and weatherworn, perfect for working in, we thought other people might see the value of such a versatile and utilitarian garment
part one - Womenswear - finally!
We have just launched womenswear - it has been a long time coming, but this is slow fashion!
The process started several months ago, and although i...
Moving studio
With the bolts of fabric, cutting table and sewing machines and overlockers all taking up space it was all becoming a bit cramped at home, original...
Fabric choices
We were now much more confident about the designs but we still didn't have any fabric, we were both very keen to make sure that the fabric was sour...
Catching up!
Well its been a hectic few months, what started as a promise, to keep up with the blog fell by the wayside as we went through the process of puttin...
The week that was....
Another busy week in the studio, the aim is to finalise the menswear in the next few weeks, so I have been busy grading patterns, and finalising de...
