At Jumeaux, we believe in the beauty of duality. Not just as a design principle, but as a way of being.
OUR STORY
Founded in January 2025 by designer Becky Dator after two decades in fashion and textile design, Jumeaux grew from a lifelong fascination with clothing, craft, and the many selves we hold at once.
THE NAME
Our name means “twins” in French, reflecting the contrasts we embrace: past and present, softness and structure, tradition and reinvention.
SLOW FASHION
As a slow fashion studio, we make clothing that lives in the in-between, pairing upcycled materials with new textiles, and elevated design with an ease meant to be lived in. Some pieces are one of a kind. Others are made in small batches using natural fibers and hand-done processes.
COLLABORATION
Collaboration is central to how we create. We work in partnership with skilled makers, artisans, and textile communities around the world. Whether made from reclaimed fabric or something new, every piece carries a story of where it came from.
CONNECTION
Honors the family, friends, mentors, makers, and communities behind each piece.
COMPLEXITY
Celebrates the many selves we carry, and clothing for every version of who we are.
CRAFTSMANSHIP
Brings it together through global textile traditions, time-honored techniques, and respect for the hands behind our clothes.
JUMEAUX
Our core ready-to-wear collection. Elevated, versatile staples made in small batches, with adjustable straps, smocking for ease, and pockets that actually work. Updated each season in new fabrics, colors, and prints. These are the pieces you reach for again and again.
UPCYCLED
New life for vintage pieces through overdyeing, embroidery, and hand-finished details. Every piece is one of a kind.
HEIRLOOM
Our most intricate work, made in limited quantities. Labor-intensive pieces rooted in storytelling and traditional textile practice. Made to be passed down.
Each line reflects the same spirit: a love of global craft, an appreciation for material, and a belief that clothing should hold meaning.
A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER
A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER
I loved clothing before I understood why. It started on my mother’s lap at the sewing machine — the hum of it, the way fabric became something else in her hands. As a teenager I’d wander the mall admiring clothes I couldn’t afford, imagining how I’d alter them, remake them, make them mine. One day, after I’d wished out loud that a piece came in another color, my mother said something that never left me: if you want to make those decisions, become a fashion designer. So I did.
I grew up in a house full of noise — academia, social justice, politics, science, travel, art, and dinner-table debates that ran long. Creativity was always in the room, though I never thought of it as a career until my parents convinced me otherwise.
At Philadelphia University I learned the bones of the craft — textiles, patternmaking, construction. I studied in London, interned with the designer Ebru Ercon, and later with Norma Kamali in New York. Even then, I knew I wanted to build something of my own — a line, a boutique, maybe both.
Free People became my first real home in the industry, back when the brand was still becoming itself. Creativity came first there, and I chased it around the world — trend trips, mentors who shaped how I see, a decade spent leading textile design, color, embellishment, and dye. In between, a season at Petulia’s Folly taught me the intimacy of boutique retail, and a stretch at Printfresh taught me to fall in love with print. Twenty years, all told, spent gathering a craft I hadn’t yet used for myself.
In 2022, a relationship of almost twenty years ended, and so did the life I’d built around it. I stepped back to find solid ground. I thought often, that year, of Norma Kamali — how she’d built “OMO,” On My Own, out of her own divorce. I was in my forties, suddenly a single mother, and the idea of starting something new felt enormous. It also felt like the only thing left to do.
So I made Jumeaux.
Everything I’d learned — twenty years of color and cloth and craft — finally had somewhere to go. Jumeaux isn’t a departure from that life. It’s what all of it was for.