The Journal
Notes from inside the house.
Fabric origins, design conversations, profiles of the women who actually wear the clothes. Published roughly twice a month — we'd rather write less and mean it.
Why we bias-cut the Halsey slip
Three days at the pattern table, a Vionnet archive, and the case for letting fabric do the work.
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The Biella wool we keep coming back to
A small family mill in Piedmont, four generations in, and the merino that finishes our blazers.
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A day with Sienna in the Garment District
From the 7am sampling room to the 6pm fit appointment — eleven hours inside the Greene Street studio.
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Margot wears the Greene blazer to court
A federal defender in Manhattan on five years of wearing one wool blazer to work, and why she still does.
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The case against synthetic blends
Why we don't use rayon, viscose, polyester, or elastane — even when the customer asks for stretch.
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Collection 03 — what we kept, what we cut
A season debrief: which pieces stayed in the line, which ones we retired, and one we're reissuing in May.
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Our Story
Made in small batches in the Garment District.
Marlowe & Vale is the partnership between a fourth-generation tailor and a former Vogue stylist — built on the conviction that a wardrobe should be cut, not consumed.
Every piece is patterned, sampled, and finished within sixteen blocks of our SoHo atelier. We work with natural fibers, milled and woven by family-run houses in Italy, Portugal, and Japan, and we make to plan — rarely more than 240 units of any single style.
Visit the atelier
SoHo, by appointment.
Come see the collection in the room where it's made. Private fittings, in-house alterations, and a glass of something while you try the pieces on.