Materials

COROZO BUTTONS

For all our garments we have chosen corozo buttons, in different shapes, to get the right mix between high quality materials, traceability and sustainability.
Let’s try to explain in a cool way what’s the history of this material!
Corozo buttons are made from dried nuts picked from a tropical palm tree native to Ecuador, which makes them environmentally friendly and 100% natural. For its resemblance to ivory in terms of colour and texture, corozo is also known as vegetable ivory. The material’s grain characteristics are increased by the dyeing process, making corozo buttons unique. Customised corozo buttons are particularly original and creative, with logos, trademarks or any kind of texture, shape and style.

SUPIMA™ COTTON

Cotton fiber wants to be the main character of our collection, it is part of our shirts, overshirts and pants. We didn’t want an ordinary guy as for our philosophy, that’s why we looked for the best, for the unordinary, to give our ideas the best ingredients possible.
Supima cotton is a superior type of cotton grown in the USA. It represents less than 1% of cotton grown in the world. What makes Supima unique to other cottons is the extra-long staple fiber that gives the cotton its premium properties: Strength, Softness and Color retention.
Not all cottons are equal. Supima and regular cotton are in fact two different and distinct species of cotton. The most common type of cotton grown around the world typically has a fiber length of only about 1 inch, whereas Supima cotton’s fiber averages 1.5 inches. Shorter fibers produce yarns that are rougher and subject to pilling on the surface of the product, while longer fibers contribute to the strength and softness of apparel and home products, ensuring that they are more comfortable, retain color longer and resist pilling over time.

TENCEL™ LYOCELL

Here, what we were actually missing, have you noticed that? the unexpected. Why not one of the most sustainable and most wanted fiber of the moment? Meet and Feel Margareth, in our store, she’s the shirt blended with Tencel.

Lyocell is a natural, manmade material made from wood cellulose or pulp. This is done using an advanced solvent spinning process. It was first developed at the now-defunct American Enka fibers facility in 1972. Then it was further developed and marketed in the United States as Tencel hence, its name by Courtaulds. Later on, the Tencel division was sold to Austrian company Lenzing AG, a textile giant and a major lyocell producer in the world.
The versatility of lyocell fabric is evident in the many different things it’s used for. It is used to make things like bed linens, denim, shirts, T-shirts, trousers, and even towels.
The main raw material for lyocell is the cellulose from wood pulp (gotten from trees like Eucalyptus, Oak, and Birch) which is chemically broken down in a soupy sludge which is then pumped out through reformed into more easily woven fibers. Thus, Lyocell can be accurately referred to as a recovered or regenerated fiber.