Petra de Jonge

Petra de Jon­ge’s desig­ns are bro­ug­ht to life by a team of tailors con­sis­ting of nati­ve and new Ams­ter­dam­mers from migrant bac­k­gro­un­ds. Petra cho­oses which tailor is most spe­ci­ali­sed in the deta­ils of each gar­ment and each tailor gets a fair wage for his work. The wor­king con­di­ti­ons at Petra de Jon­ge are good!

Petra selec­ts the fabrics for her luxury cre­ati­ons with atten­ti­on for quality and dura­bi­lity. A part of the fabrics employed are leftover/​deadstock fabrics from well-known fashi­on bran­ds, but Petra also has spe­ci­al fabrics like luxury jacqu­ard deve­lo­ped wit­hin Euro­pe. 

You can cho­ose a unique fabric from the col­lec­ti­on that Petra has built up over the years, to car­ry out your cho­sen design. You can also have the fabric embro­ide­red or pain­ted by hand to per­so­na­li­se it fur­t­her or cho­ose mat­c­hing accessories. 

The mate­ri­al com­po­si­ti­ons of the fabrics are vari­ed, but most of them are (sup­po­sed­ly, not veri­fi­ed) Oeko-Tex cer­ti­fi­ed, which means that they do not con­ta­in any har­m­ful substances. 

A mate­ri­al you will find a lot in the col­lec­ti­on is an Ita­li­an tra­vel fabric, made of polya­mi­de and elas­ta­ne. This fabric is made in using a met­hod that is water, ener­gy and che­mi­cals-effi­ci­ent way to redu­ce pol­lu­ti­on and emi­ssi­ons. The advan­ta­ge of this fabric is that it stays beauti­ful for a long time and it is cre­ase-resis­tant. But beca­use both polya­mi­de and elas­ta­ne are syn­t­he­tic fabrics, it is not biode­gra­da­ble in the end-of-life phase. 

Petra de Jon­ge also has luxury jacqu­ard fabrics made in Fran­ce. This is a very expen­si­ve woven mate­ri­al that is known for its rich look and high quality. Howe­ver, the mate­ri­al is a blend of polyes­ter and is the­re­fo­re not easily recyclable.

Other mate­ri­als you will find in the col­lec­ti­on are (stret­ch) cot­ton, vis­co­se, polyes­ter, recy­cled polyes­ter and bam­boo. 

You can also have jeans made to measu­re that fit you per­fec­tly. For stret­c­ha­bil­ty, the­se jeans con­ta­in a type of elas­ta­ne made from recy­cled PET bot­tles that have been fished up from the Ams­ter­dam canals. 

Anot­her unique piece in the col­lec­ti­on are sus­ta­ina­ble denim jac­kets that are made of pre-worn jeans and used leat­her from old bank uphol­s­tery. Petra de Jon­ge brin­gs upcy­cling to the wor­ld of luxury fashion! 

Quality is a high pri­ority at Petra de Jon­ge, the­re­fo­re you can enjoy this brand’s clot­hes for a long time. They also use cir­cu­lar mate­ri­als like pre-worn jeans and used leat­her (from ban­ks) but also elas­ta­ne obta­ined from recy­cled PET bot­tles from the Ams­ter­dam canals. That’s nice to see! 

Howe­ver, the other mate­ri­als used for the col­lec­ti­ons are less cir­cu­lar as they are often blen­ds of dif­fe­rent texti­les such as cot­ton and elas­ta­ne or polyes­ter. As a result, the fabrics are not recy­cla­ble and if syn­t­he­tics are used, are not biode­gra­da­ble in the end-of-life pha­se either.

Petra de Jon­ge has a short sup­ply cha­in. All fabrics come from Euro­pe, namely Italy, Fran­ce and Ger­many. Then the clot­hes are made in The Net­her­lan­ds, at Petra’s stu­dio in Amsterdam.

Almost all Petra de Jon­ge’s clot­hing is vegan, as ani­mal mate­ri­als are not often used. 

For the suede looks, real cowhi­de is not used but a syn­t­he­tic alter­na­ti­ve ins­te­ad. And to cre­ate the sna­ke­skin look, jacqu­ard woven fabric is fini­shed with a metal­lic layer. 

Recy­cled leat­her which pre­vi­ous­ly ser­ved as uphol­s­tery is added to cer­ta­in jac­kets. This gives the quali­ta­ti­ve mate­ri­al a second life!

Petra de Jonge’s desig­ns are made to order at the­ir stu­dio in Ams­ter­dam. The­re­fo­re they pro­du­ce in small volu­mes, and only what is needed is made. That’s why the­re are no left over bat­c­hes and no big sales, total­ly slow fashion!

In addi­ti­on, you can have an ori­gi­nal design made and exe­cu­ted at Petra de Jon­ge’s Col­lec­ti­on & Coutu­re Ate­li­er, for per­for­man­ces (sta­ge clot­hes), wed­din­gs (both as bri­de and as guest), other events or for everyday use. 

Petra de Jonge’s design style can be des­cri­bed as ​‘edgy chic’, yet femi­ni­ne. Beca­use Petra can make a 3D-scan of your body and adapt a digi­tal pat­tern to it, the size chart of this brand has no limits. The desig­ner fin­ds it impor­tant to design for the diver­sity of fema­le sha­pes, opti­mi­zed for the spe­ci­fic body.

Craf­t­sman­ship is also an impor­tant ele­ment in Petra de Jon­ge’s work, all her gar­ments are made with atten­ti­on and passi­on in her own wor­k­shop. Than­ks to the exper­ti­se in the tra­de the quality is high and the clot­hes last a long time.

Petra de Jon­ge has made her sup­pli­ers known to COSH! and the names and pho­tos of the tailors are lis­ted on the web­si­te. Only in the area of mate­ri­al com­po­si­ti­on and ori­gin the brand could be more transparent.