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All of Archi­vis­t’s pie­ces are ethi­cal­ly pro­du­ced in a fami­ly-owned stu­dio in Roma­nia. 

All of Archi­vis­t’s clot­hing is made from dis­card­ed luxu­ry hotel sheets. Usual­ly, the­se are made of high-qua­li­ty Egyp­ti­an cot­ton. Becau­se the fibers of Egyp­ti­an cot­ton are long, they are very strong and soft, per­fect pro­per­ties for shirts!

Archi­vis­t’s part­ner hotels coll­ect their tex­ti­les and send them to Archi­vist stu­dio, whe­re they go through qua­li­ty con­trol and pro­fes­sio­nal clea­ning, then the fabrics go to Roma­nia for pro­duc­tion. The fabrics that do not pass Archi­vis­t’s qua­li­ty con­trol are used for col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons with artists and fri­end­ly desi­gners. The shirts are then dyed or plas­te­red with other lef­to­ver fabrics to crea­te uni­que pie­ces. Not­hing is wasted!

The clot­hing is stit­ched with cot­ton thread and the but­tons are mother of pearl.

Archi­vist is a very cir­cu­lar com­pa­ny! They use fabrics that would other­wi­se end up in land­fills and turn them into qua­li­ty new garm­ents. This way, the hotel sheets can last ano­ther round and becau­se of the qua­li­ty and tim­e­l­ess­ness, you can wear the clo­thes for a long time too.

All fabrics come from luxu­ry hotels in Ams­ter­dam (Wal­dorf Asto­ria), Lon­don, and Roma­nia. When the white sheets are dyed, this is also done in Roma­nia. This way they keep the sup­p­ly chain as local as pos­si­ble and becau­se of the small-sca­le pro­duc­tion they have a good over­view of the working conditions!

The but­tons are made from mother of pearl, which comes from the insi­de of shells. Becau­se of this, Archi­vist is not com­ple­te­ly vegan but they come close!

Archi­vis­t’s phi­lo­so­phy is to make con­scious con­sump­ti­on a habit and crea­te a move­ment that lets peo­p­le cele­bra­te con­scious indul­gence in the form of high-qua­li­ty, sus­tainable, tim­e­l­ess, sea­so­nal, and gen­der­less garments.

The brand frames its­elf per­fect­ly in the slow fashion pic­tu­re with that tim­e­l­ess design, they make true ward­ro­be essen­ti­als! Not only the design but also the qua­li­ty con­tri­bu­tes to the fact that you can enjoy your Archi­vist pie­ce for many years.

Bes­i­des shirts Archi­vist also has boxer shorts and soon they will expand their coll­ec­tion with paja­mas, stay tuned!

Archi­vist pas­sio­na­te­ly explains the coll­ec­tion and pro­duc­tion pro­cess. Howe­ver, the exact hotels from which the hotel sheets come and the fac­to­ry in Roma­nia are unknown. In terms of trans­pa­ren­cy, the brand can the­r­e­fo­re still grow.