Sometimes something starts as complaining, and slowly turns into a plan.
This jacket is made by two artists, two best friends, with different practices but definitely a shared love for adventure. And with adventure always comes water, rain that finds you on long roads, sea spray that settles into everything, snow that quietly soaks through your sleeves. So we needed to be waterproof. Properly. And ready to rumble.
Last year, May 2025, we came together. Officially because we were both applying for funding for our art practices, which is nice, of course, but also comes with its own edges. Being dependent on institutions can slowly close off certain ways of thinking, certain freedoms. You start shaping ideas into what might fit, instead of what wants to exist.
Around that time I was looking for a good jacket to take on my bike trip to the North Cape (leaving in 1,5 months), and everything I liked, the ones that were actually beautiful, and looked properly waterproof, were faarrrrr above my budget. So I started complaining. Quite a lot.
And then Eline said: yeah, I actually need one too. She was preparing to sail to the Canary Islands (she lives on a boat, which still feels a bit unreal to me).
And because I tend to try things before thinking them fully through, we landed on a simple question:
what if we just make it ourselves?
So we did.
On the back it says: What if it does work out.
It’s a sentence we’ve both been carrying around for years. Something we say to each other when we try again, after a failed plan, a half-working idea, a painting that doesn’t land, a project that collapses somewhere between imagination and reality.
Because often… it doesn’t work. Or not in the way you thought it would.
But still: what if it does?
That question feels more important than the outcome. It’s a kind of engine. Something I know I’ll carry for the rest of my life. Because what is a life without something to move toward? And why not just try? You never really know what will come out of it, or what it will teach you.
And the jacket?
It has been with me everywhere.
I cycled with it to the North Cape.
Through Morocco in December .... very rainy, very wet.
And I wore it every single day on my bike trip through Ireland in March.
So I can tell you: it works.
It is waterproof. And comfortable. Even my dad says so; which might be the most reliable review there is.
We didn’t make this jacket to start a brand.
We made it because we needed it.
But now it’s here. And maybe you need it too, for your own plans, your own trips, your own version of “what if it works out”.
xoxoxox
Sara @cafedebedstee
