Cole spent the better part of a decade learning how clothes are actually made, not designed, made. Time in workrooms and small ateliers taught an eye for the details most people never think to check: how a seam is finished, how a sole is attached rather than glued, how a fabric holds up after the twentieth wash.

Yorke came at it from the other direction, years spent sourcing fabric and studying what actually makes a piece wearable. Not just how it photographs, but how it moves, layers, and holds its shape at the end of a long day. Where Cole obsessed over how something is made, Yorke obsessed over how it feels.