007 // The Joiner's Jacket
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The Joiner's Jacket takes its name from a traditional craft, but the design itself came from a mixture of workwear references rather than one definitive historical jacket.
A joiner works with wood, making and fitting elements such as doors, frames and furniture. It's skilled, practical work, and I've always admired the relationship craftspeople have with their materials and tools.
That felt like an interesting starting point for a Supermoon garment.
Workwear and the Workshop
There isn't a single uniform that all joiners ware. Workshop clothing has changed across places and generations, just as the work itself has changed.
What does remain consistent is the thinking behind practical clothing: freedom to move, durable cloth, straightforward fastenings and details that earn their place.
One of the references I kept coming back to was the traditional carpenter jean.
I liked the usefulness of the pocket arrangement and the way those pockets become part of the character of the garment rather than simply decoration. That idea fed directly into the Joiner's Jacket.
Rather than copying a carpenter jean literally, I borrowed elements of that pocket language and translated them onto a jacket.
The result is something that feels familiar and functional, but not like a reproduction.
The Colour
The blue came from another piece of workwear I've always loved: the classic French Bleu de Travail.
I have an old example that has been worn almost to death. The original blue has faded unevenly over time, becoming lighter across the areas that have seen the most wear while remaining deeper in the seams and more protected parts of the garment.
Those highs and lows are what make it so beautiful.
It's the sort of colour you can't really design in one moment. It develops through use.
That worn French workwear blue became the inspiration for the colour of the Joiner's Jacket. I wanted it to have that same sense of familiarity from the beginning, while still allowing the fabric to develop its own character through wear.
I don't think I completely nailed that colour in this interpretation, and perhaps I never could.
The thing I love about the original is exactly what can't really be reproduced: decades of washing, wearing, fading and living in the garment. Thirty years of wear creates something that a dye house can only approximate.
In a way, that's probably the point.
The reference gives the jacket somewhere to start, but the rest has to come through being worn.
The Importance of Editing
When you're developing workwear inspired clothing there's always a temptation to add another pocket, another seam or another adjustment.
Sometimes those additions really do improve a garment. Other times they're just noise.
For me, the challenge is creating a useful shape with enough character to be interesting, without making it unnecessarily complicated.
The collar, body length, pocket proportions and fabric all have to work together.
And as with any jacket, the real test comes once you've made a sample. What looks convincing on paper can look very different when worn.
The Supermoon Approach
The Joiner's Jacket brings together several workwear ideas rather than following one historical garment exactly.
The name comes from the world of skilled making and workshop clothing.
The pockets borrow from carpenter jeans.
The colour takes its cue from a heavily worn French Bleu de Travail.
But none of those references were intended to dictate the final design.
For me, inspiration should give you somewhere to begin, not tell you exactly where you have to end up.
I wanted the finished jacket to feel familiar, straightforward and useful, while still sitting naturally within the rest of the Supermoon collection.
The reference might start the conversation, but the finished garment still has to stand on its own.
Supermoon / / Edition 01