We’ve been thinking about beginnings. ✨
The kind you don’t recognise at the time.

Our first SA Fashion Week show — a small capsule, a pattern we didn’t fully understand yet, a collaboration that quietly became something more.

It didn’t feel like a defining moment then.
Looking back, it was.

This collection explores the balance between structure and softness.

Graphic patterns inspired by doors, thresholds and openings sit alongside organic motifs drawn from nature, growth and the landscapes that shape us. Geometric lines meet wildflowers. Apertures meet field notes.

The Aperture pattern began with a simple observation: doors are never just doors. They represent movement, possibility and change. Some invite us in. Some ask us to leave. Some remain closed until the timing is right. They mark the space between where we have been and where we are going.

Alongside these graphic forms are softer, more instinctive patterns inspired by sunrays, wildflowers and the vast outdoors. Together they reflect something deeply human: the need for both roots and exploration, structure and flow, certainty and curiosity.

One cannot exist without the other.

As a South African and Portuguese collaboration, these patterns reflect a blending of cultures, stories and ways of seeing. We need places that ground us, and open doors that invite us forward.

Designed as new additions to the Romaria collection, these pieces are made for versatility and layering. From studio to street, home to travel, they move effortlessly through different spaces, seasons and stories.

A collection about contrast and harmony. About knowing when to stay rooted, and when to walk through a new door.

Apertures & Field Notes

Featuring jewellery pieces by Kirsten Goss, and eyewear by Ballo Sun from And Ticks.

Photography credits: Eunice Driver and Pierre Van Vuuren.

From Knit To Woven

Same language. New form. ✨

We’ve always worked in knit. It’s where everything began — our foundation, our rhythm, the way we learned to build. But somewhere along the way, we kept reaching for something lighter. Something that moved differently. Something that could sit alongside it, not replace it.

It didn’t come easily. There were attempts that didn’t land, ideas that stalled, doors that didn’t open. Until, eventually, they did.

A butter-soft linen and Tencel blend. An old friend, back in Jozi, now working with embroidery. The right materials. The right hands. The right moment.

And suddenly, the patterns we know so well began to shift. Not knitted in, but stitched on. The same language — just spoken differently. Geo. Aperture. Nature. Flow. Structure and softness, held together in a new way.

Designed to be worn together. Layered, mixed, lived in. From studio to street. Inside and out.

A new rhythm — built on everything we already are.