Oliver Church

Oliver Church is a New Zealand-born clothes-maker and designer who works from Paris. Everything he makes is handmade and hand finished, and each garment is singular rather than part of a repeating run. He builds his pieces from carefully sourced antique fabrics, so no two are quite alike. Natural dyes are a big part of the story too. He works with a range of them to give the colours real depth, the sort of richness you notice up close. If you like clothes with a maker's fingerprints on them, this is a label to know. The pieces stocked at Nitty Gritty are made to order and exclusive to that shop.