Photo: Berlin fashion week summer 2010 at +38°C (Brunnenstraße / wedding dress show)

Hi!

We are Ebba & Geppetto — that’s where the name “geppebba” comes from.

It all started in the summer of 2003 in Morocco, because of a Tuareg businessman who wanted to sell us accessories on the beach every day… But after two months, our eyes became fixed on his beautifully crafted pair of traditional trousers: a pair of blue sarouel trousers with intricate embroidery, combining a sense of elegance with a relaxed, casual feel.

We tried, unsuccessfully, to buy them from him. But when we searched the souq, we simply couldn’t find anything of similar quality. At the time, Ebba was a fashion student, so she started designing a pair of sarouel trousers to meet our own ideas and desires.

What followed was three years of prototyping, eventually leading to our first 100-piece series — the beginning of a new and elaborate vision for trousers.

Today, however, we can say that we never expected this process to become our whole lifetime. The “Evolution of the Ultimate Drop-Crotch Trousers.”

It subsequently changed our lives in many ways, and we learned a great deal by exploring the limits. Everything that happened along the pioneering path towards the product exceeded our imagination: the emotional ups and downs, the unexpected turns of fortune, the wonderful people we met, and all the lessons along the way. This is what has challenged us to keep designing, never give up, mature, and bring textile ideas to life.

For us, taking a fantastic journey and discovering your own kind of general relativity means breaking out — taking the risk of going your own way.

And that’s what geppebba means to us: what we both do to give our existence a meaning. A good product should be able to speak for itself — without marketing campaigns or endless explanations. And of course, it should not be missing the sustainable aspect. But for us, sustainability is so fundamental and self-evident that we don’t see it as another marketing bubble worth talking about. We love creative ideas and perfectly made products, and we hope to reach open minds who appreciate individual and progressive clothing.

Thank you for reading! 🙂