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Tucked away in a quiet courtyard in Paris’ Le Marais district, the unofficial heart and soul of the French capital’s fashion industry, is designer Anthony Calydon’s studio. Despite the electric hustle and bustle of the surrounding neighborhood, Calydon’s space, with its wood-paneled walls and neat rows of garments, is a zen haven of creativity—a mirror of the designer’s monk-like dedication to his craft. It’s from within this space that he and his small team design their signature tracksuit-esque ensembles that skyrocketed his eponymous brand to popularity two years ago.
Calydon first started playing around with garment-making as a child, but it was never with the intention of one day launching his own label. Rather, he was inspired by the Marvel blockbuster Spiderman to create his own clothes—“specifically, the scene of Tobey Maguire [as Peter Parker] in his bedroom, sketching his costumes,” he muses. The designer’s mother, a jewelry designer for Swarovski, introduced him to her friend who taught him how to cut and sew patterns. But, just like Peter Parker, all of Calydon’s initial creations were simply to make clothes he felt confident to wear. “I wanted to be able to say to my friends, ‘I made this myself, by hand.’”
After graduating high school, Calydon studied accounting. He has a gentle and thoughtful demeanor about him, and a grounded acumen which perhaps accounts for the steady, paced growth of his label. “I would spend days sourcing fabrics at the famous Marché Saint Pierre, and then sewing all night, experimenting with the different fabrics,” he recalls. Defining and refining his vision day in and day out, he sold his made-to-order designs via Instagram until he felt anchored enough in his practice to formally launch his own brand in 2023. He had enrolled at ESMOD Paris around the same time, but dropped out after three months as his brand exploded. Luckily, he stuck around just long enough to meet his idol Yohji Yamamoto, whose mastery of cut and construction echoes Calydon’s own: “I showed him my work, and he said, ‘Yes, you just have to continue.’”
An avid video gamer, Calydon has, from day one, approached clothing as armor and uniform. The slick, ribbed design of his tracksuits was inspired by hours playing the multi-player game Monster Hunter with his cousin. “There is this aquatic monster that I love,” Calydon explains. “I started hunting for a fabric that felt like him. The ribbing was developed as sort of scales.” Sci-fi films, from Jurassic Park to the Alien series, are also a veritable mine of inspiration for the designer. Notions of metamorphosis and structural protection define his aesthetic and process.
To wear Calydon’s tracksuits is to feel at ease and safe as you navigate the world around. There’s an inherent dichotomy in his clothes; Calydon is equally concerned with the wearer being comfortable as they feel protected from their surroundings. His designs are a magical seaming of the fantastical and utilitarian, the intuitive and the rational—our inner and outer worlds. “My process is really based on feeling,” he says. “When I feel the texture of a good fabric, I have something in my head telling me this one is for a sweater, this one is for pants.” Such personal emotionality is communicated through the soothing tactility of his main jersey material. The neutral palette of white, gray, brown, and black is a blank-ish canvas, encouraging the wearer to complete the garment’s story with their own dreams and aspirations.
It’s perhaps this innate understanding of textile that allows Calydon to manipulate structure in its softness, and comfort in its protection. Each piece is made of high-quality cotton, stitched with durable industrial thread and Riri zippers. The precise ruffled finishings, crafted from gathered rib-knit detailing, add an element of fantasy without being frivolous.
During Paris Men’s Fashion Week last June, Calydon released denim iterations of his tracksuit, which will stay on as part of his core collection. Denim levels up his designs—silhouettes become sharper with the material’s edge and rawness.
Despite his rapid growth, Calydon is steadfast in his commitment to local industry. His label is one of the few brands in today’s fashion scene that can sincerely claim to be entirely Paris-made: Calydon designs out of his studio in Le Marais, and the pieces are sewn by seamstresses in the city’s 19th arrondissement. His garments are available for pre-order in limited quantities to ensure he can work within the capabilities of local businesses without producing excess stock. “The pieces are complicated, as we have a lot of signature techniques—the use of unbreakable thread, the unique finishes on the outside and inside,” the designer explains. “It wouldn’t be possible to maintain this quality if we were to work with larger factories.”
This rigorous, honest approach to fashion production—no cutting corners for the sake of scalability—has ensured the healthy evolution of his brand. Windows for pre-orders only stay open for a limited amount of time throughout the year. “I’ve always said I’m a product guy,” Calydon says. “I’m here on the sewing machine trying out new things, not just thinking about margins.”
Like one of his favorite video games, Pokémon, Calydon envisages a paced evolution of his brand. Later this year, he will introduce a series of futuristic gloves, to be launched via a film project.
“Just like how Pokémons evolve and grow, I hope people can layer the new items with the core collection,” Calydon says. “And build [them] to style their own armor and uniform.”
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Tucked away in a quiet courtyard in Paris’ Le Marais district, the unofficial heart and soul of the French capital’s fashion industry, is designer Anthony Calydon’s studio. Despite the electric hustle and bustle of the surrounding neighborhood, Calydon’s space, with its wood-paneled walls and neat rows of garments, is a zen haven of creativity—a mirror of the designer’s monk-like dedication to his craft. It’s from within this space that he and his small team design their signature tracksuit-esque ensembles that skyrocketed his eponymous brand to popularity two years ago.
Calydon first started playing around with garment-making as a child, but it was never with the intention of one day launching his own label. Rather, he was inspired by the Marvel blockbuster Spiderman to create his own clothes—“specifically, the scene of Tobey Maguire [as Peter Parker] in his bedroom, sketching his costumes,” he muses. The designer’s mother, a jewelry designer for Swarovski, introduced him to her friend who taught him how to cut and sew patterns. But, just like Peter Parker, all of Calydon’s initial creations were simply to make clothes he felt confident to wear. “I wanted to be able to say to my friends, ‘I made this myself, by hand.’”
After graduating high school, Calydon studied accounting. He has a gentle and thoughtful demeanor about him, and a grounded acumen which perhaps accounts for the steady, paced growth of his label. “I would spend days sourcing fabrics at the famous Marché Saint Pierre, and then sewing all night, experimenting with the different fabrics,” he recalls. Defining and refining his vision day in and day out, he sold his made-to-order designs via Instagram until he felt anchored enough in his practice to formally launch his own brand in 2023. He had enrolled at ESMOD Paris around the same time, but dropped out after three months as his brand exploded. Luckily, he stuck around just long enough to meet his idol Yohji Yamamoto, whose mastery of cut and construction echoes Calydon’s own: “I showed him my work, and he said, ‘Yes, you just have to continue.’”
An avid video gamer, Calydon has, from day one, approached clothing as armor and uniform. The slick, ribbed design of his tracksuits was inspired by hours playing the multi-player game Monster Hunter with his cousin. “There is this aquatic monster that I love,” Calydon explains. “I started hunting for a fabric that felt like him. The ribbing was developed as sort of scales.” Sci-fi films, from Jurassic Park to the Alien series, are also a veritable mine of inspiration for the designer. Notions of metamorphosis and structural protection define his aesthetic and process.
To wear Calydon’s tracksuits is to feel at ease and safe as you navigate the world around. There’s an inherent dichotomy in his clothes; Calydon is equally concerned with the wearer being comfortable as they feel protected from their surroundings. His designs are a magical seaming of the fantastical and utilitarian, the intuitive and the rational—our inner and outer worlds. “My process is really based on feeling,” he says. “When I feel the texture of a good fabric, I have something in my head telling me this one is for a sweater, this one is for pants.” Such personal emotionality is communicated through the soothing tactility of his main jersey material. The neutral palette of white, gray, brown, and black is a blank-ish canvas, encouraging the wearer to complete the garment’s story with their own dreams and aspirations.
It’s perhaps this innate understanding of textile that allows Calydon to manipulate structure in its softness, and comfort in its protection. Each piece is made of high-quality cotton, stitched with durable industrial thread and Riri zippers. The precise ruffled finishings, crafted from gathered rib-knit detailing, add an element of fantasy without being frivolous.
During Paris Men’s Fashion Week last June, Calydon released denim iterations of his tracksuit, which will stay on as part of his core collection. Denim levels up his designs—silhouettes become sharper with the material’s edge and rawness.
Despite his rapid growth, Calydon is steadfast in his commitment to local industry. His label is one of the few brands in today’s fashion scene that can sincerely claim to be entirely Paris-made: Calydon designs out of his studio in Le Marais, and the pieces are sewn by seamstresses in the city’s 19th arrondissement. His garments are available for pre-order in limited quantities to ensure he can work within the capabilities of local businesses without producing excess stock. “The pieces are complicated, as we have a lot of signature techniques—the use of unbreakable thread, the unique finishes on the outside and inside,” the designer explains. “It wouldn’t be possible to maintain this quality if we were to work with larger factories.”
This rigorous, honest approach to fashion production—no cutting corners for the sake of scalability—has ensured the healthy evolution of his brand. Windows for pre-orders only stay open for a limited amount of time throughout the year. “I’ve always said I’m a product guy,” Calydon says. “I’m here on the sewing machine trying out new things, not just thinking about margins.”
Like one of his favorite video games, Pokémon, Calydon envisages a paced evolution of his brand. Later this year, he will introduce a series of futuristic gloves, to be launched via a film project.
“Just like how Pokémons evolve and grow, I hope people can layer the new items with the core collection,” Calydon says. “And build [them] to style their own armor and uniform.”
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