WELCOME TO S.P.A.*

Hi everyone, Jonas and Simon here :)

The two guys in that pic attempting to look like fashion moguls. We’re the co-founders of S.P.A. and this right here is our baby.

First things first, thanks for making it to our website. Truly. The fact that you’re looking around and perhaps even considering parting with some of your hard-earned cash to cop something S.P.A. means everything to us.

This is meant to be an about page though, not a Brit award acceptance speech.

What is S.P.A. all about then?

It’s not that difficult to explain really. We’re just two best friends making clothes that we ourselves want to wear. In the big, boxy cuts that we enjoy the most and are inspired by the late 00s TV shows + rappers we grew up enjoying. Cut from heavyweight fabrics so that they keep their shape and get better with age, not worse. With bold prints inspired by signage and advertisements from British staples we see in our everyday lives - a nod to the culture of our home and origin country.

Outside of designing and building the sickest clothes we possibly can, we’re also turbo fan boys of art, music, design, film, TV et al. So, we collaborate with creators producing content that we as fans consume on the daily, letting them white-label our essentials collection for their merch capsules. This started as a bit of a side ting, and it’s grown into us becoming one of the main, premium, made in England merch providers for the creative arts.

That’s it.

Hope to see you somewhere soon. If you see us first, make sure you say hi (like Job Jobse did at a festival in 2022).

Much love,

Jonas + Simon

*it’s pronounced S-P-A, btw.

SUSTAINABILITY

We are under no illusions. One independent brand, on its own, isn’t going to solve the environmental crisis that we as society currently face. However, we believe that by optimising for sustainability in everything we do, with constant marginal improvements across our entire production chain, we might be able to start to make a difference:

• Production machinery runs only on green energy generated from wind, solar and hydroelectric sources
• We use GOTS-certified organic cotton - grown without the use of pesticides
• Zero-waste - at the production stage, if any fabric goes unused it is then recycled for other projects
• All fabric dyes used are organic and vegan
• We ship our orders to our customers using biodegradable packaging and, when we can, purchase carbon offsets for the delivery journey

DESIGN

We start with the fabric and the decision making process is easy - only the most durable, heavyweight fabrics that are available to use will do.

We then perfect the fit. Every one of our garments goes through a painstaking pattern making and assembly process, where we finesse every single dimension until we have something that we ourselves would want to wear.

Multiple samples are produced, endless rounds of user research and feedback are conducted and weeks of product testing are performed until everything is perfect. Before then, nothing goes out the door.

This is why we have such a small collection, but is also why our customers tell us we produce the best-quality, best-fitting clothes they have ever owned.

TRANSPARENCY

There are no shortcuts when it comes to conveying transparency. In order to reassure our customers that buying an SPA product is an investment in better garments, we want them to be able to see the skill, love and care that goes into bringing them to life. It’s important to us.

SUPPLIER SELECTION

We only work with suppliers that abide by the ETI Base Code, which is founded on the International Labour Organisation and is an internationally recognised code of labor practice. This enables you to know where your garments are being manufactured and to be able to prove the garments being produced meet all local and national laws.

The ETI base code also sets out guidelines that all its members must abide by, to ensure each employee within the factory has a full choice over their employment and is treated fairly in terms of working environment and wages. To read the ETI Base Code, please click here.

Situated in the English Leicestershire countryside, our factory is a third-generation family business with whom we maintain a very close relationship and stay in contact with on a daily basis - sometimes to their annoyance we're sure!

Personal relationships, not just with our suppliers but with anyone we interact with, regulalrly in a business context, are integral to our sucess and are something that we do not take for granted. After all, our success in business in linked to their's. Hence, we emphasise the importance of treating them like the key stakeholders that they are.