Rome was not made for a season. Neither is a Hugo Caesar Tassi dress. Our responsibility is simple: choose better materials, make them well, send them out in packaging worth keeping, and tell you the truth about how far we have come.
Wherever the cloth allows, our pleated chiffon, satin and crepe are woven from recycled polyester — fibre reclaimed and spun anew rather than drawn from the ground. The hand is unchanged: the same liquid fall, the same depth of imperial color. The difference is in what it asks of the world to exist.
Recycled fabric is not a finish line; it is a starting position. We are steadily widening the share of reclaimed and lower-impact fibre across the collections each season.
Our dresses are cut and sewn in workshops we know, where the people who make them are paid fairly and work in safe, dignified conditions. We favor smaller, considered runs over volume, so that nothing is made simply to be marked down — and so that craft, not haste, sets the pace.
Every order arrives in our porphyry gift box — deep imperial red, gilt-marked, made to be reused rather than discarded. Tissue and protective wrap are recycled and recyclable, and we keep plastic to the minimum a delicate dress safely allows. A box that survives the unboxing is, quietly, the most sustainable packaging there is.
The most considered garment is the one you keep. We design for longevity — classic Roman line over fleeting trend — and we ask you to extend it with good care. Pleated chiffon in particular rewards a gentle hand.
Our guide will see your dress through many seasons: How to Care for Pleated Chiffon.
We will not claim to be a perfect house. We are a young one, founded in Rome in MMXXVI, and there is real work ahead: lifting the share of recycled and certified fibre further, mapping our supply chain more deeply, and reducing the footprint of every parcel we send. We would rather state the road plainly than dress it up. As we make progress, we will report it here — measured, not marketed.