Designer Linen Shirts — What Separates PP from the Market
Designer Linen Shirts — What Separates PP from the Market
Designer Linen Shirts — What Separates PP from the Market
The designer linen shirt market ranges from the fast fashion brand that calls its polyester-linen blend "designer" to the Italian luxury house whose linen shirt is made in the same Portuguese factory as its mid-market competitors. PP's position in this market is defined by two things that most designer linen shirts do not have: an independently verified fabric certification and a handmade atelier construction.
What makes a designer linen shirt. The fabric: certified Belgian linen carries the Belgian Linen® certification mark — the independently verified standard for flax grown and processed in the Belgium–northern France region. The certificate of origin that ships with every qualifying PP garment is the evidence, not the claim. The construction: PP shirts are handmade in the PP atelier in Dubai, not factory-produced at scale. The buttons: natural seashell from the ocean for most PP shirts; walnut for the Monte-Carlo Male and the Amelia Oyster; corozo nut from the palm tree for the Spetses Blazer.
“The designer linen shirt market ranges from the polyester-linen blend labelled "designer" to the Italian luxury house made in the same Portuguese factory as its mid-market competitors.”
— Pieter Petros, founderThe PP designer linen shirt range. The Laos — the classic PP men's shirt. The Cuba — the more casual construction. The Monte-Carlo Male — walnut buttons, the most formally composed. The Bliss — the relaxed silhouette. The Vibes — the oversized, shorter-length silhouette. Each handmade. Each certified Belgian linen or natural linen. Each with a certificate of origin.
