Every Mielène piece is designed by me in Munich — the fabrics chosen, the proportions tested, the details obsessed over — and made by a small, trusted workshop in Hungary that shares the same care for quality I bring to everything.

I grew up in Hungary, so I went home to find the people who would sew Mielène. I know the team. I've sat with them over coffee and watched the sleeping bags being finished by hand — the last threads pulled, the embroidery checked under the light. We work in small batches — what the workshop can complete properly in a single season, no more.

It would have been cheaper to make more, somewhere else. I chose to make less, here.