The Atelier

Lamina. A thin layer, pressed.

The name is the method. A Laminis garment is a stack — a face cloth, a membrane, a backing — pressed into one material that behaves like cloth and performs like a shell. It means we can draw a seam anywhere we like, because the seam is no longer holding the garment together. That freedom is the whole design language: one continuous curve across a chest, a pocket set flush into a panel, a hem that closes without a hem.

Started with a problem, not a mood board

Laminis began in 2021 in a converted lamination workshop outside Porto, between a pattern cutter who was tired of hiding seams and a materials engineer who knew how to remove them. The first sample was a chest panel with no stitch in it at all. Everything since has come from that: outerwear and tailoring that borrow their construction from technical laminates, and their proportion from the way a coat actually falls on a person walking through a city in November.

Three rules we do not move on

The garment is finished when nothing is left to remove

No applied logos, no contrast stitching, no pocket that exists to be seen. If a detail does not do work, it does not ship.

We never make the same piece twice

Two hundred per colour, then the pattern is retired or reworked. It keeps the studio honest and keeps the archive small.

We fix what we sold you

Repairs are free, permanently, and handled by the same workshop that made the garment. A returned piece is a brief, not a loss.

Where things actually come from

Cut and make. Two family-run factories in Barcelos and Guimarães, northern Portugal. We have worked with both since our first run and we publish their names because we are happy for you to check them.

Laminating. Our own workshop outside Porto, which is also where every repair is handled.

Chemistry. PFC-free across the whole range since the first season. No fluorocarbon durable water repellents, ever, including on the shell garments.

Fibre. Organic or recycled at 84% of total volume for Volume One. The remainder is virgin wool from a single mulesing-free supplier in Biella.

Waste. Off-cuts go back to the laminator as backing stock. Sampling is done in previous-season cloth.

What is in the cloth

Face. Japanese three-layer laminate on an organic cotton face, or a 480gsm double-faced jersey knitted in northern Portugal.

Membrane. PFC-free polyurethane, 10,000mm water column, 10,000g breathability.

Seams. Bonded and internally taped at 620kPa. Load-bearing points — shoulder, crotch, pocket bar — are stitched and then covered.

Hardware. Recycled aluminium pullers and water-resistant zips, tuned to run silently. Nothing is branded except the chest mark.