Statement
What the label is for
Signed, dated and rewritten once a year.
We make the heaviest hoodie the mill will run, we make three hundred of it, and then we stop.
The label started because the best-made clothes in this city were the ones the port issued: 480 gsm jersey, waxed canvas, a strip of reflective tape so a forklift would see you. None of it was for sale to anyone who did not work a shift. Kade is that wardrobe, cut for the people who walk past the gate.
Every drop is numbered like a container and capped at three hundred pieces, because a run you can count is a run you can stand behind. When it is gone we do not make more, we do not discount, and we do not sell through anyone who would. Fourteen shops carry the label because we drove to each of them first.
The pieces are sewn in Guimaraes by a factory that makes uniforms for the port there, and they come back to this floor to be checked, numbered and boxed by hand. The count on the manifest is the count in the box. That is the whole idea.
- Made Guimaraes and Rotterdam
- Since June 2024, Drop 01
- Run 300 pieces, never more
- Rewritten September 2026
Ruben Achterberg
Warehouse 3, Rijnhaven, September 2026
The floor
Katendrecht, warehouse three
Where the pieces are printed, counted and boxed. Nothing here is a set.
The count
Counted, not estimated
Every figure here is read off the manifest, not off a dashboard.
300
Pieces per run
Counted at the table. Never more, sometimes fewer.
09
Drops since 2024
Four a year since 2025, two a year before that.
14
Stockists
Nine cities. Each one visited before it got an allocation.
0
Restocks
Not one, and none planned.
Crew
Four people on one floor
Everyone here can cut, most can sew, one of us can print straight.
- DES
Ruben Achterberg
Founder, pattern and print
Since2018
On the tableGrading the Drop 10 parka across five sizes
- CUT
Femke Oosterhuis
Cutter and sample maker
Since2021
On the tableCutting the first three samples of the fleece half-zip
- PRT
Yusuf Demirci
Screen print and finishing
Since2022
On the tableBurning the screens for the Drop 10 tee
- OPS
Lotte Verbeek
Stockists and shipping
Since2023
On the tableAllocating Drop 10 across fourteen shops
A run you can count is a run you can stand behind. Three hundred is not a marketing number, it is how many fit in the boxes we can carry down the stairs.