A peek into our founder's Monday routine — pattern day at the atelier.
The wide-leg trousers in oat. Always. With bare feet in the atelier, a coffee going cold on the cutting table, and the radio on low. Monday is pattern day — the day new designs are born from paper and pins. Comfort isn't optional; it's the uniform.
How are new linen garment designs created?
Every new Souls in Clothes design starts on paper. Larah sketches silhouettes by hand — no software, no digital shortcuts. The first question is always the same: can this be worn every day? If a design only works for a special occasion, it doesn't make the cut. Our clothes exist for Tuesday mornings and Saturday markets and everything in between.
What inspires a slow fashion designer?
Not trend reports. Not Instagram. The inspiration comes from watching how women actually move — how they reach for something on a high shelf, how they sit cross-legged on the floor, how they carry a child on one hip. Garments that restrict movement aren't garments; they're costumes. Larah designs for life as it's lived, not as it's posed.
Monday's pattern becomes Tuesday's toile — a test garment in cheap fabric that checks fit and movement. Wednesday it's adjusted. Thursday the final pattern is cut. Friday it's filed, ready for the next order that calls for it. A five-day cycle for something that might be worn for fifteen years.
The wide-leg trousers, by the way, are three years old. They're softer now than when they were made. That's the test every design has to pass: does it get better?