The Piece
Crafted in two seasonal windows each year — not driven by trends, but by the moments when making feels spacious, grounded, and alive.
A Wild Hide Vest is not something you wear. It is something you inhabit.
It carries the memory of a life lived close to the earth — and when you put it on, something in you remembers that too. It warms without weight, moves without resistance, and softens the longer it is loved. This is not fast fashion draped over a body. This is a second skin — wild, considered, and entirely your own.
About This Vest
This vest is made to order, individually handcrafted from full grain, natural hair-on-hide leather — incredibly soft, and only softening further with wear. Because it's a natural fibre, it breathes in a way synthetics simply cannot, keeping you comfortable across a surprising range of conditions.
The design is intentionally adjustable — hand-laced shoulder and side seams that can be widened or tightened to suit your body, with front braided ties that can be knotted, bowed, or left to hang as a feature. One size fits most.
No two vests will ever be exactly the same. Natural colour variation in each pelt means every piece is genuinely one of a kind.
The Craft
Sourced from a ethical & sustainable focused Australian company, every element of this vest is hand cut, hand punched, and hand laced. Seventy individual grommets are set by hand. Around twenty metres of lacing finishes the neck and armhole edges, threaded in a way that creates a more intricate edge. Handcrafted copper beads and tassels secure each lacing end so you can adjust sizing without re-threading.
This is not fast work. It is the kind of making that takes days, not hours — and shows.
The Story Behind the Hides
The goat is one of the world’s most playful, resilient, unpredictable, reliable, dreamy, wild and free animals, not easily contained.
The calf knows nothing of performance. Only presence. Only the warmth of the earth beneath and the wide open ahead.
All quiet strength and tender becoming — soft at the surface, resilient beneath, moving through the world with a gentle wildness that runs deeper than it first appears.
The kangaroo is this land. Not a visitor to it, not passing through — but born of it, shaped by it, as ancient and alive as the earth beneath its feet.
It knows only forward motion — rooted to this ancient land, moving across it with a power and grace that is entirely its own. Wild, unhurried, and impossible to tame.
To wear its leather is to carry something of that belonging. That rootedness. That quiet, unshakeable wildness.
These skins are sourced through an ethical and sustainable focused Australian company working with the world's leading tanneries that share our ethical values.
The toggles are fair-trade ethically sourced tusk or timber, each one unique & selected to compliment the hide.
Slow Fashion, by Design
This is not about buying for a season. It's about investing for a reason.
When you choose a piece like this, you are choosing craft over convenience, intention over impulse, and something you will genuinely treasure for years to come.
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To begin, I invite you to complete a short Bespoke Order Request — it helps me understand what you're seeking and whether this making window is the right moment for us to create together.
The Piece
Crafted in two seasonal windows each year — not driven by trends, but by the moments when making feels spacious, grounded, and alive.
A Wild Hide Vest is not something you wear. It is something you inhabit.
It carries the memory of a life lived close to the earth — and when you put it on, something in you remembers that too. It warms without weight, moves without resistance, and softens the longer it is loved. This is not fast fashion draped over a body. This is a second skin — wild, considered, and entirely your own.
About This Vest
This vest is made to order, individually handcrafted from full grain, natural hair-on-hide leather — incredibly soft, and only softening further with wear. Because it's a natural fibre, it breathes in a way synthetics simply cannot, keeping you comfortable across a surprising range of conditions.
The design is intentionally adjustable — hand-laced shoulder and side seams that can be widened or tightened to suit your body, with front braided ties that can be knotted, bowed, or left to hang as a feature. One size fits most.
No two vests will ever be exactly the same. Natural colour variation in each pelt means every piece is genuinely one of a kind.
The Craft
Sourced from a ethical & sustainable focused Australian company, every element of this vest is hand cut, hand punched, and hand laced. Seventy individual grommets are set by hand. Around twenty metres of lacing finishes the neck and armhole edges, threaded in a way that creates a more intricate edge. Handcrafted copper beads and tassels secure each lacing end so you can adjust sizing without re-threading.
This is not fast work. It is the kind of making that takes days, not hours — and shows.
The Story Behind the Hides
The goat is one of the world’s most playful, resilient, unpredictable, reliable, dreamy, wild and free animals, not easily contained.
The calf knows nothing of performance. Only presence. Only the warmth of the earth beneath and the wide open ahead.
All quiet strength and tender becoming — soft at the surface, resilient beneath, moving through the world with a gentle wildness that runs deeper than it first appears.
The kangaroo is this land. Not a visitor to it, not passing through — but born of it, shaped by it, as ancient and alive as the earth beneath its feet.
It knows only forward motion — rooted to this ancient land, moving across it with a power and grace that is entirely its own. Wild, unhurried, and impossible to tame.
To wear its leather is to carry something of that belonging. That rootedness. That quiet, unshakeable wildness.
These skins are sourced through an ethical and sustainable focused Australian company working with the world's leading tanneries that share our ethical values.
The toggles are fair-trade ethically sourced tusk or timber, each one unique & selected to compliment the hide.
Slow Fashion, by Design
This is not about buying for a season. It's about investing for a reason.
When you choose a piece like this, you are choosing craft over convenience, intention over impulse, and something you will genuinely treasure for years to come.
_____________
To begin, I invite you to complete a short Bespoke Order Request — it helps me understand what you're seeking and whether this making window is the right moment for us to create together.
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