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TOM SACHS
We first met Tom back in 2016, when he was doing a show at YBCA (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) in San Francisco. What started as a custom bag order turned into an almost decade-long creative partnership. Since then, we’ve built a whole network — a kind of extended family of rascally creatives. We design together, we holiday together, and everything in between.
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PAT TOWERSEY (whr)
We met Pat back in 2020 through our good friend (and now studiomate), Jay Nelson. At the time, we connected over a shared love of the ocean and the experience of running small, up-and-coming brands along the California coast. Over the years, we’ve gotten to collaborate and watch each other grow.
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KEVIN SCOTT
Kevin is a fountain of knowledge and a maker in the truest sense of the word — his workshop is proof of that. Really, it’s every craftsman’s dream. We’d live there if he let us. Once a month, we pick a Saturday to meet up for a sewing project. It’s our favorite excuse to hang out, make stuff, and flip through the living encyclopedia that is Kevin’s brain.
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Nepenthes / Engineered Garments
Meeting the team at Nepenthes felt meant to be. A mutual friend had been telling us all about these cool, likeminded people we had to meet and collaborate with. Then, just a few weeks later (completely unprompted) the Mafia Japan crew let us know Nepenthes had reached out to them directly.
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Chef Fernando Trocca / Mostrador
Fernando Trocca is a renowned Chef and dear friend of ours — if you don’t have a friend who is also a renowned chef, we recommend it. His Uruguay restaurant Mostrador is located in the small coastal town of José Ignacio, and his New York location brings the same magic a little closer to home. The food is insanely delicious, homemade, and made from locally sourced ingredients, often just steps from the kitchen.
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PATAGONIA
Our relationship with Patagonia started when Fletcher Chouinard donated a batch of his own used kite sails. We turned them into bags, and then he shared our work with his Patagonia colleagues, who in turn started handing us all kinds of other used gear to experiment with: old Patagonia jackets, climbing rope, and more.
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RIVIAN
Some of our friends at Patagonia moved on to work at Rivian. They had our number, so when the Rivian team needed collaborators for sustainable products in their retail spaces, they gave us a call. We made some great gear and then got introduced to their interior design team, who had even bigger ideas.
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LAURA KAMPF
We first met Laura at one of Tom Sachs' shows in Hamburg, Germany. We had a bunch of mutual friends, and by the end of the night, it felt like we’d known each other forever. It was one of those instant, easy connections — helped along by the fact that she’s a fellow maker. There’s a certain bond that happens when you meet someone else who loves working with their hands, and Laura is someone who inspires others to do exactly that.
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