Made to order — 3 to 4 weeks
ailleurs (adv.) — elsewhere; somewhere other than here
Not made for everyone.
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Every pattern drafted by hand and sampled twice before it goes anywhere near a customer order. No grading for scale, no size curve built for a warehouse.
Nothing under 380gsm. Loopback cotton milled in Portugal, garment-dyed in small vats so no two pieces settle at the same shade.
Nothing is held in stock. Your size is cut after you order, which takes three to four weeks and means we never run out of anything.
Made after
you order.
Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting for someone to want it. When an order comes in, your size is cut, sewn and finished by hand in north London. That takes three to four weeks, and it is the reason nothing here is ever out of stock.
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Everything below has been retired. We no longer cut these patterns. They are kept here because the work is part of the record.
About / The collective
Small runs.
Then we stop.
AILLEURS started in 2024 as four people with access to a unit between the hours nobody wanted it. A borrowed straight-knife, one overlocker held together with gaffer, and a heat press that tripped the building's power twice a night.
We were not trying to start a brand. We were trying to make the jacket none of us could find.
The name is French for elsewhere. Ailleurs — somewhere other than here.
Everything is drafted by hand and sampled on real bodies, not blocks. Each piece is cut for the order it belongs to, then numbered before it ships.
When we retire a pattern we stop cutting it and it goes to the archive. We would rather make a short list of things properly than keep everything alive forever.
We release when a run is finished rather than on a schedule, so there are no seasons and no pre-orders. We do not pay anyone to wear the clothes.
Nothing is held in stock, so nothing is ever unavailable. What we stop making is retired to the archive instead.
Unit 7, off the North Circular. No shopfront, no appointments, no sign on the door.
Cut and sewn in London. Cotton milled in Portugal. Hardware from a supplier in Birmingham who has been doing it since 1974.
1,284 pieces made to order since 2024. Every one cut for a specific person and numbered before it left the unit.
Contact
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nightdesk@ailleurs.uk
Returns & faults: faults@ailleurs.uk
ElsewhereInstagram — @ailleurs.uk
Studio visits — by arrangement only, write first