As the golden light drapes over Oxfordshire’s landscapes this August, OX Magazine’s latest issue — celebrates the region in full bloom. With our own feature nestled within its pages, we explore a story of character, craftsmanship, and summer‑soaked inspiration.

Our most recent studio days have been shaped by early mornings and long golden afternoons. Tea taken outside, where we can sketch and sew with the scent of summer in the air. There’s something about August that draws attention to material. Cotton with memory. Wool with breath. Colour stories borrowed from the garden — rusted greens, plum, the pale pink of fading pelargonium.

We’ve been walking. Watching how people shape and move through their landscapes. A woman balancing cut flowers in one arm, keys in the other. A man in pressed trousers opening his gate to the post. Everywhere, the imprint of care. Quiet gestures that say: “This is mine, and I tend it.”

And perhaps that is the word we keep returning to — tend. Not just make. Not just grow or build or fix. But tend. To give ongoing attention to something because you believe in it, or need it, or simply love it.

It’s that philosophy we’re carrying into new pieces now: garments that feel both refined and deeply lived-in. A button you want to touch. A seam you trust. Something to wear with ceremony, or ease, or both.

There is dignity in the everyday. And right now, we are leaning into it.

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With love from the studio,
Baptiste