Brands we carry

Agaric Fly makes incense in Melbourne. Its scents are blended in-house from aroma molecules and natural fragrance oils, with a science-fiction bent, and every stick is dipped by hand.

Named from a turn of phrase uttered by Austrian philosopher Karl Popper, Amsterdam’s An Irrational Element modernizes the intellectual’s closet. Though designer Kai Bolwijn previously created exclusive colors of his brainy garments for Colbo, it’s his exquisitely wearable leather shoes that’ve become a store mainstay.

Another Aspect’s seasonless garments iterate rather than innovate upon staple silhouettes. Founders Daniel Brøndt, Anders Poulsen, and Nicolaj Thomsen first brought their level-headed wares to Colbo with a collaborative collection but the relationship has since matured beyond garments: Colbo hosted Another Aspect for events in New York and Another Aspect returned the favor by accommodating the Colbo team in Denmark.

Camiel Fortgens’ garments are cut loose and raw-hemmed, a purposeful inversion of fashion perfectionism. Maybe because of this shared indifference to industry norms, the Dutch designer has been a longtime friend of Colbo since even before the store first opened — his was one of the first labels Colbo ever stocked and they both remain close to this day.

Carson Wach makes denim and workwear in Los Angeles, after the work clothes of nineteenth-century miners, cowboys and builders. Since 2017 the label has been known for its 333 jean, cut from American mill denim and marked with a stitched “W” on the back pocket.

Quality takes time. Hannah Cawley’s eponymous brand is defined by clothes made to order in London for clients seeking lifelong clothing companions. But Colbo is one of the few retailers for whom Cawley creates readymade garments. The relationship goes beyond, as Hannah often makes yearly pilgrimages to Colbo with exclusive items, bringing vinyl records from her own collection to soundtrack the festivities.

Colbo’s own line is designed in New York and made in small batches across Europe and the United States, much of it from deadstock cloth with a focus on Italian and Japanese textiles. Relaxed shapes in an earth-tone palette: rooted in menswear, made for anyone. Past seasons are in the lookbooks.

CSiLLAG makes heavyweight basics in the United States, among them fleece hoodies with the logo stitched inside out and shirts in brushed cotton twill.

The unpretentious facade of Ernie Palo’s Japan-made garments barely masks designer Ryo Yamaguchi’s obsession with craft and fabric. That’s not the only thing he shares with Colbo, one of Ernie Palo’s first American stockists and with whom Yamaguchi often partners to create special items informed by their shared ideals. He also operates a wine bar in Tokyo called Slow that mirrors Colbo’s deep love of a good sip.

As a portmanteau of “heritage” — earned wisdom, tradition — and “will” — the drive to shape the future — Herill’s name tells its story. Designer Hiroyuki Oshima’s workwear-meets-militaria garments are rooted in the past but modernized by updated fits and clever details, yielding obviously great clothes that Colbo admired from afar even before they arrived at the store.

Jeanerica is a Stockholm denim label founded by Lena Patriksson Keller and Jonas Clason. Its jeans are cut from organic and recycled cotton with no stretch, and each pair carries a patch of certified paper instead of leather.

Seeking to preserve the function of its original and rare machinery, Kanemasa Meriyasu, a circular-knitting mill in Wakayama founded in 1964, sought a route to modernization. Kanemasa Phil., launched in 2021, gives those machines new purpose, and the resulting garments, fine jersey cut into shirts, knits and trousers, are somehow more than the sum of their parts. In 2025 the brand won the Tokyo Fashion Award.

For those who dare to seek it out, Mark. S promises craft unmatched. The enigmatic label’s name isn’t a hint at its anonymous designer’s identity but a promise of purpose: “mark,” as in “a trace left behind” and “S.” for “supreme,” as in quality. Colbo is one of the first stores to stock these peerless clothes, which show the human touch through their handmade, handspun, handwoven and hand-dyed textiles.

When the creators of online-only French boutique suuupply decided to create what they considered quintessential clothes, Museum Garments was born. A connection was formed with Colbo through a friend of a friend, leading to Colbo becoming the first and only store in America to sell Museum Garments’ vintage-inspired and museum-worthy garments.

Belgian designer Jan-Jan Van Essche positions O-Project as the all-season, all-purpose, unisex wardrobe, as harmonious as a perfect “O.” Naturally dyed for depth, O-Project’s artful fabrics are cut into relaxed, genderless silhouettes indicative of Van Essche’s oeuvre, aligning neatly with the ideals of Colbo, one of its first American stockists.

Isolde Richly founded Polyploid in Berlin in 2017. The name comes from genetics, for an organism with more than two sets of chromosomes, and each of her designs comes in three versions, one in calico and two in other fabrics. Pieces in Japanese fabrics are made in Japan, and those in European fabrics in Germany.

Yoshida & Co. has made bags in Tokyo since 1935, and its Porter line since 1962, named for the porters who carry travelers’ luggage. The totes and leather goods here come in lustrous nylon twill and naturally tanned leather. In January 2024 Colbo hosted Porter’s first pop-up in North America.

Arnar Már Jónsson and Luke Stevens met at the Royal College of Art and launched Ranra in fall 2022, working between Reykjavík and London. They design for cold weather, outerwear first, and dye, wash and rework garments by hand so each one ages into itself. Most of the line is made in Italy.

RUS’s flowing garments find inspiration in traditions sourced across Europe and Asia, from Kyrgyzstan to Japan. Spanish sisters and designers Inés and Pati Gutiérrez emphasize ritualistic, individualized ease, with knits made in family-run factories in Spain, Portugal and Italy from Italian-spun yarn. They’ve held events at Colbo, where the fluidity of their knitted garments is always laid beautifully bare.

The eponymous imprint of designer Sage Toda-Nation exists in between his British and Japanese heritage, enmeshing the former’s menswear touchstones with the latter’s traditional shapes. Sage Nation’s clothing, soft and generous, makes the most sense when taken in full, hence why when the designer showed his seasonal works at Colbo, he brought exclusive items and sample clothes never offered anywhere else.

More of a creative practice than an easily categorizable clothing brand, Small Talk Studio was founded by Nick Williams in 2017 and is now run with Phil Ayers, friends of Colbo whose studio shares a nearby space in Midtown New York. Small Talk occasionally brings its new-season items, a mix of lived-in staples and workwear-inspired layers, to Colbo popups that end up being as much a party as a collection premiere.

Read Colbo Chats with Small Talk Studio.

A relatively new Colbo friend, Wanze Song is a master of brainy and occasionally startling textiles: Hairy bouclé wool, suiting fabrics cut on the bias, metal-infused cotton, linen coated for structure. The Toronto designer was there in person to debut her line at Colbo, a moment for which she created an exclusive capsule that demonstrated how easily her workwear-meets-militaria approach blends with the world of Colbo.

Japanese designer Yoko Sakamoto’s collections are a Colbo mainstay — as one of the designer’s first American stockists, Colbo believes in Yoko and Yoko believes in Colbo. Sakamoto’s useful, grounded garments are thus always well-represented at Colbo, demonstrating the breadth of her plainly excellent design cues and those gorgeously dyed, all-natural cottons, wools, cashmeres and silks.

Read our conversation with her in Meet the Makers.