The House
Made to order, cut to one body, with no sample line and no deadstock.
The most honest thing a clothing house can say about its footprint is how much it makes. We make forty evening commissions and twelve bridal gowns a year, each one after an order rather than in hope of one.
That is not a sustainability programme bolted onto a production line. It is simply what a nine-person workshop cutting by hand can do — and it happens to be the version with the least waste.
Cloth is ordered per commission from Como. Nothing is bought speculatively, so nothing sits in a store room until it is written off.
What comes off the cutting table becomes appliqué, covered buttons, and beading grounds. Larger remnants become toiles for the next commission.
Cut deliberately wide so a garment can be altered a size in either direction years later. A dress that still fits is the least wasteful dress there is.
Wardrobe fittings exist so house garments come back to be taken in, re-hemmed, and re-pressed rather than retired.
Within Athens a garment is delivered in person. Beyond it, by courier, packed in a cotton dust bag rather than plastic.
We are not carbon-neutral and we do not have a certification to point at. Silk is flown from Italy. We would rather say that than dress it up.
Eight couples have come back to be dressed a second time. Several of those first garments have been altered twice since.