About Us
vic - he/they [@viciousfrockery]
Creative Direction
Collection designer, social media manager, and court jester, Vic curates the creative wing of the Archive. As an armchair art historian and historical costume enthusiast, Vic has been professionally twisting thread, paint, and pixels since 2018.
marc - he/him [@elegantfeatherduster]
Product Designer
Product manager, fabric-picker, pixel-mover, and Maker of Cool Stuff; Marc turns the vision into reality. Marc has held creative and technical positions in half a dozen fields that span from action figures to Broadway, and he brings this eclectic knowledge to The Archive to curate the Perfect Piece.
emmett - they/them | @emmjupiter
Master of Operations
Emmett has a mind for operations and the experience running a previous clothing company to back it up. Their fingerprints are all over any numeric, logistic, or communications-based trait of the Archives; someone has to remember to pay the power bill.
Values & Process
As a small business dedicated to slow fashion practices, we do our best to ensure that every step has ethics and sustainability in mind.
We take 6-12 months (sometimes more) to design each collection, with size inclusivity and biodegradable fabrics as top priorities. Our clothing is gender agnostic, collaborative, and made with human hands.
As our team is made up of professionals who have held jobs in textile manufacturing, costuming, and the fashion industry ourselves, we understand manufacturing conditions through personal experience. We have held the same jobs that we ask our manufacturers in Hong Kong to do, and our relationships are all the stronger for it.
We do not use pre-manufactured blanks or hand-stitched details in order to prioritize ease of manufacture and to double-ensure our partners are always paid a living wage.
