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Autumn 2026
Twenty-two pieces
Undyed wool, heavy linen and one colour, taken from a photograph of the Douro in November.
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Forty of each, then it stops.
Two collections a year, cut and sewn by eleven people on one floor in Porto. Nothing here is made to be replaced next season.
Maison Arcen — Autumn 2026
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01 The house
We make twenty-two pieces, forty of each, and then we stop. Eleven of them are re-cuts of things we had already made — improved where we had learned something, left alone where we had not. Nothing here is designed to be replaced next season.
— Maison Arcen, Porto
02 Two collections a year
One that changes. One that doesn't.
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The Standards
Nine pieces, always available
The nine things we make every year, unchanged unless we learn something. No season, no lookbook, no reason to hurry.
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Look 02
The river coat
The one colour in the collection, taken from a photograph of the Douro in November and matched over four dye lots.
Look 03
The cable, re-cut
Our fourth version of this sweater. The shoulder moved eleven millimetres, and it is the only change.
Look 04
The long shirt
Heavy washed linen, cut to be worn open over everything or closed over nothing.
04 Contact sheet
Twenty-two frames, one roll.
The collection in the order it was cut. Keep scrolling and the strip runs sideways.
08 frames — 22 looks
05 The atelier
Nine days, eleven people.
Every run is made on one floor in Porto, from cloth out of four mills we have used since 2019.
Cutting
Days one and two
Forty of each piece, cut by hand from paper patterns — one for each of the six sizes, each size cut on three different bodies.
Sewing
Days three to seven
Each piece is sewn through from the first seam to the last, on the same floor where it was cut.
Fitting
Day eight
Every size is tried on before the run is finished. Where it pulls, the pattern changes, and the change is written down.
06 Deliberately this size
Small on purpose.
Every one of these is a decision, not a stage we are passing through.
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People in the atelier
40
Of each piece, then it stops
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Shops, and no direct sales
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Mills, unchanged since 2019
07 Credits
Made by eleven people, on one floor in Porto.
- Patterns
- Inês Valente
- Cutting
- Rui Barros, Sónia Leite
- Sewing
- Teresa Mota, Helena Sá, Graça Pinto, Lúcia Ramos, Fátima Couto
- Fitting
- Ana Faria
- Pressing and finishing
- Joaquim Neves
- Letters, repairs and the archive
- Marta Lobo
Cloth
- Undyed wool
- Portugal
- Heavy linen
- Belgium
- Cotton poplin
- Japan
- Lambswool
- The mill we visit every year
Filmed on the atelier floor and in the streets of Porto, Autumn 2026.
It is on its third winter. I sent a photograph of a worn cuff, and it came back mended.
Giulia, Bologna, The long coat, Autumn 2024
08 Worn in
We have never run a campaign. These are the people who wear it.
09 Where to find it
Six of the nineteen.
We do not sell directly. Each shop is listed with what it holds. Ring before travelling — runs of forty go quickly.
01
Porto
Rua Miguel Bombarda
The full collection and most of the Standards.
02
Ghent
Sint-Jacobs
Coats and knitwear only. Our longest-standing shop, since the first run.
03
Bologna
Via del Pratello
The Standards, always, and about half of each collection.
04
Copenhagen
Nørrebrogade
Autumn 2026 from September. They take the linen every year.
05
London
Redchurch Street
Coats, shirts and the trouser. No knitwear, by their choice.
06
Oslo
Karl-Johans gate
The full collection, and the only shop holding the archive re-cuts.
11 Write to us
Write to the atelier.
Two people read every message. There is no customer service department, and there never has been.
Maison Arcen Lda · Porto
Fin — Autumn 2026
Find it in person.
No shop, no checkout. Nineteen independent shops hold it — each one listed with what they took.