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Considered, not clever
A garment should solve a problem a body has. Nothing more. Cleverness is a tax the wearer pays.
FOUNDED 2021 · KYOTO · BROOKLYN
A SMALL STUDIO MAKING FEWER THINGS, Slowly.
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THE STORY
Why we started.
MERIDIAN started as a conversation between a textile engineer in Kyoto and a pattern maker in Brooklyn. They had both spent ten years at larger brands and arrived, separately, at the same frustration: the industry had optimized for volume and variety, and forgotten garments are things people wear.
They started with a tee. The first MERIDIAN Heavyweight Tee went through seventeen revisions over eleven months before it shipped to fifty people on a private mailing list. Every one of those fifty people still wears it.
That is the whole brief. Make fewer things. Make them slowly. Make them for the people who will actually wear them for a decade. Ship them at a price that is honest about what they cost to produce.
We design for the thirty-six hours you actually wear a garment. Not the thirty-six weeks of the marketing calendar.
We are still small. We plan to stay small. Small is how we keep the studio at 03:42 a place you want to be.
What we won't compromise on.
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Slow by design
We ship two drops a year. Seventeen prototypes per silhouette. This is the pace we can sustain honestly.
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One mill at a time
We work with single mills and finish houses for each material. It is slower. The result is traceable.
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Priced for a decade
Buy fewer things. Wear them longer. We price for the wear, not for the transaction.
Two rooms. One studio.
KYOTO
BROOKLYN
Sourced, not specified.
Japanese heavyweight cotton
Wakayama Prefecture · 320–480 gsm
Loro Piana merino
Biella, Italy · 12.5 micron
Organic Supima poplin
Arizona USA · GOTS certified
Dry-waxed British canvas
West Yorkshire · 440 gsm
Swiss Schoeller stretch twill
Sevelen · 4-way dryskin
Recycled nylon ripstop
Prato, Italy · 70D · GRS
Five years, four markers.
- 2021MERIDIAN founded · first Heavyweight Tee shipped to 50 people
- 2022Brooklyn studio opened · DROP 001 released publicly
- 2024Kyoto atelier added · DROP 012 · first Field Coat
- 2026DROP 024 · The Everywhere Climate
What they said.
HYPEBEAST
“Quietly one of the more considered launches of the year.”
HIGHSNOBIETY
“A label that sounds like it reads books.”
SSENSE EDITORIAL
“Restraint as luxury.”
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