About Us

Eight pieces, cut in Berlin, worn before they were listed.

Where the rail starts

This shop began with a complaint rather than a business plan. A wool skirt bought for a Berlin winter looked correct in the mirror and had ridden halfway up the back by the end of a working day, because the elastic in its waistband was a single narrow band sewn into a casing barely wider than itself. Two jackets in the same wardrobe had the opposite problem: the shoulder seam sat where a shoulder should sit, but there was no room under the arm for a sweater. Everything here is built around those two failures. The rail is deliberately short so that each waistband, placket and armhole can be worn, sat in and washed before it earns a place on the page.

The waistband question

A waistband is the piece of a skirt that decides whether it is worn twice or twenty times, and it is the piece most often hidden in the photography. Every elastic on this rail sits in a channel wide enough to lie flat, and it is stitched through at two points so that it cannot roll in the wash or migrate around the body after an hour in a chair. Plaid is matched at the side seam rather than only at the front, which costs fabric and is why the rail is small. Linings are cut on the same grain as the shell and two centimetres shorter, so nothing shows below the hem in daylight.

What a winter asks of a jacket

A jacket that has to work from October to March is really three garments: one that closes high against wind, one that opens over a knit without pulling at the buttonholes, and one that can be sat in on a tram without the shoulder rising around the ears. The four jackets here were cut to close over a sweater and still show a waist, which is a matter of two centimetres at the armhole and a facing that is interfaced to stop the cloth stretching where the buttons are sewn. Pockets are bar-tacked at the corners, because a pocket that gapes after a month is the first thing a wearer notices and the last thing a photograph records.

The name on the label

The label carries the name of the business that stands behind every order: COSIMA LEUZZI. That name is the whole of the identity here, and it is the only name that appears on the parcel, on the invoice and at the foot of this page. There is no separate house brand invented for the website, no invented founder and no borrowed heritage. Orders are prepared and checked by the same small team that chose the cloth, which is why the reply to a question about a hem arrives with a measurement rather than a template. If something is wrong with an order, the person who answers knows the garment, because they packed it.