Form + Fiber
slow fashion
Like the wearer, our clothes have stories…
Making and wearing clothing is one of the first things our early human ancestors decided was important. And this is still true today – the clothes we wear tell stories. They also reflect our personalities as well as the way we wish to be viewed. Tragically, many of the stories that accompany our clothes (whether we realize it or not) are sad ones: the massive global Fast Fashion Industry exerts an ugly and heavy toll on people, animals and Planet Earth in order to provide the billions of dollars of cheap, disposable clothes bought and sold everyday.
Form + Fiber offers an alternative.
Living well in comfort and style.
We are clothiers who offer timeless classics inspired by a nostalgic sense of beauty, the fusion of disparate cultures and their customs, and a celebration of individuality as well as craftsmanship.
Up against the stark, standardized bleakness of global consumerism, our goal is to offer you something to wear that is at once rooted in the history, beauty and legacy of the past that also merges with the comfort and practical details available in the 21st Century.
It is our hope to help you achieve a personalized style that comes from a blending of innovation, tradition and individual taste.
Our Origins:
a small (but global) family business
Form + Fiber was formerly established in 2024, but like many things, its origins are older.
The seed for this company was planted decades ago when Jacqueline Beier, founder and pattern-maker, fulfilled a childhood fantasy and learned how to make the beautiful clothing she’d been dreaming about.
But making beautiful clothing isn’t a business. A couple of years after they married, Jacqueline’s husband helped turn it into one.
Production began following a trip to Nepal where the couple found what they were looking for: beautiful fabrics and the artisanal sewers required to bring Jacqueline’s patterns to life.
With the help of Samjhana (Form + Fiber’s first employee), Jacqueline and her husband were able to cultivate the connections and established the operations required to start producing garments in Nepal from their home on the opposite side of the planet in North Beach, San Francisco.
It was difficult, but things worked out. The improbable started to make sense. Jacqueline began selling her clothing from a pop-up booth in the SF Bay Area.
Now Jaccqueline’s brother has joined the team in order to help grow the business online as well as expand production to Germany, where he and Jacqueline were born.
From this emerged Form + Fiber.
In their commitment to and passion for quality – for trying to make the best – and for wedding form to function in the most satisfying way we can imagine, and for refusing to be content with the shortsighted and shoddy, [artisans] deserve our respect, admiration, and allegiance.
— Bruce Boyer