Porto – where the river meets the sea
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There are places in the world that stay with you long after you've left. Porto is one of those places.
I've always been drawn to water — the sea, rivers, the way light moves across a surface and turns something ordinary into something extraordinary. Porto has all of that. The Douro River winds through the city and opens up into the Atlantic, and standing at that point where river meets sea, you feel something shift inside you. It's ancient and alive at the same time.
The city itself is layered — azulejo tiles in deep blue and white covering the facades of old buildings, narrow cobblestone streets that lead you somewhere unexpected, the smell of salt and grilled fish drifting up from the riverbank. I walked for hours there, camera in hand, just trying to capture what it felt like to be in a place so unapologetically itself.
It was the colours that stayed with me most. The warm terracotta rooftops, the faded pastels, the deep indigo of the tiles against a bright sky. The way the golden hour light hits the Ribeira district and makes everything glow. I kept thinking — this is what I want to carry with me. This feeling.
That's where the Porto Collection was born. Not at a desk, but standing on the banks of the Douro, watching the light change over the water. Each piece in the collection is an attempt to hold onto that feeling — the warmth, the depth, the quiet beauty of a place that moves at its own pace and doesn't apologise for it.
I hope when you wear it, you feel a little bit of Porto too.