DESIGNER

Filippa Fuxe · Nathalie Schuterman

2026 AUG

Follow one of Stockholm’s quieter side streets and you come upon a story that began inside a small atelier. LEONÍ is an emerging fashion house drawing its own line somewhere past Scandinavian minimalism, in a language borrowed from sculpture and from couture.

Here we look into the world that founder Nathalie Schuterman and designer Filippa Fuxe have built by hand in that atelier — and into the slow, precise process by which a single garment changes the person wearing it, until that change becomes an identity of her own.

Filippa Fuxe & Nathalie Schuterman · LEONÍ Atelier, Stockholm

Intro · The Moment a Garment Changes You

For Filippa, fashion was a matter of identity long before it was a matter of clothes. It began with film and theatre — with the moment someone becomes a different person entirely simply through what they put on, and with the way a single garment can shift a posture, an atmosphere, even one’s own sense of self. That fascination has stayed with her ever since.

“It was always the invigorating feeling of how a garment could change the way a person

carried themselves, their presence, even their sense of who they were.

That feeling has never stopped exciting me.”

— Filippa

Filippa Fuxe

She started making clothes herself as a teenager, when her grandmother taught her to sew. The two would pick out fabrics they liked, draft the patterns, and build a garment stitch by stitch. In those years of working out who she was, sewing became her way of finding the answer.

Lore Wool Silk Sculptural Jacket

Beginning · A World of Our Own

LEONÍ grew out of something both women had carried for a long time: the wish to tell a more personal, more intimate story, and the desire to build a brand where craftsmanship and dimensional silhouette could stand at the centre rather than at the edges.

“From the very beginning it was never simply about  making clothes, but about creating a world of our own.

A world where silhouette, material and detail speak for themselves.”

— Nathalie

LEONÍ · Stockholm

The name LEONÍ carries an identity of its own — feminine yet strong, with the particular mystery Nathalie loves in it. She wanted a name that carried a feeling rather than a fixed meaning. Over time, LEONÍ has filled that name in for itself: through its silhouettes, its handwork, and its own way of speaking.

LEONÍ · 26SS Collection

A dense creative chemistry runs between them. They share the same instincts about quality, proportion and beauty, and yet each brings a different eye to the work. That balance — one steady vision, two people keeping each other sharp — is what has brought LEONÍ to where it stands now.

Form · Sculpture Rising on the Body

Before founding LEONÍ, Filippa spent years deep in the world of custom, hand-built couture, where she developed both her eye and her technique. Those years in a couture house — a place that pushed shape and silhouette well past their usual limits — remain her greatest asset. To keep that dramatic presence and fine tension while bringing couture’s sculptural language into clothes a woman can actually live in: that has long been her aim, and her aesthetic.

LEONÍ · 27SS Runway

“I work a lot through draping rather than relying solely on flat pattern-making,

letting the fabric find its own shape directly on the body.

That is how LEONÍ’s sculptural silhouettes come to life.”

— Filippa

LEONÍ · 27SS Collection

Inspiration usually starts somewhere outside fashion. What holds Filippa are antique garments, the theatre, and the long textile traditions of the North. The precision archived in historical dress and the staged tension of the theatre give the collections their dramatic, elegant air, while the density of traditional textile work gives the clothes their depth.

Anita Pallenberg, 1960s

Our Dancing Daughters, 1928

Traditional Breton Lace Makers, Bigouden

The bold formal language of sculptors is another source that completes her aesthetic. The monumental weight of Richard Serra meets the organic line of Isamu Noguchi, and out of that meeting comes the sensual, structural vocabulary that belongs to LEONÍ alone.

Richard Serra · Inside Out, 2013

Isamu Noguchi · Slide Mantra Maquette, 1985

The pull of antique couture lies in a refinement and a density of detail particular to its era. Rather than staying in the past, that inheritance resurfaces as material for the present — elaborate historical construction and ornament passing through a contemporary eye and coming out gracefully reinterpreted.

Dean Fringe Skirt

It is through this process that LEONÍ’s silhouettes arrive at something singular. Designs that pay their respects to heritage while holding the ease and freedom women want today. Dressing becomes less an act of putting on clothes than of wearing a piece of sculpture.

Lore Wool Silk Sculptural Jacket

Detail · The Space Left to the Wearer

LEONÍ layers several possibilities into a single piece. The signature Rooni cardigan, with a shawl that buttons on and off through loops; the button-stand shirt, where moving the closure changes the whole shape. The last chapter of a garment’s story is left open, like a blank space, for whoever wears it.

Rooni Shawl Cardigan

“We like to leave a space for the person wearing it,
so the piece is only completed through their own creativity.”

— Filippa

Didion Silk Shirt

Detail is where her attention runs deepest. Knitted and finished by hand, each garment keeps a fine texture and a quiet variation of its own. That is also why LEONÍ works only in small limited editions. For all the time and handwork that goes in, the clothes come out with something particular to them, never anonymous.

Dean Fringe Skirt

Atelier · The Stockholm Atelier

No two days in the atelier look the same. Constant draping and sketching, fitting after fitting. There is always a current of creative energy in the room where every prototype finds its form — sketch on paper to fabric swatch, mockup to prototype, and at last to a single finished garment.

Stockholm Atelier

When she sets the work down, Filippa steps away from it entirely. She runs, she meditates, or she takes a small trip — to a museum, or to the summer house in Hälsingland. Somewhere quiet, outside the pull of ordinary days, is usually where new thoughts find their way in.

Philosophy · Never Compromise

TPS · Handcrafted value, and objects that gain another layer as time passes — that is the direction TPS looks in. In a world already overflowing with clothing, what makes a design good, to you?

Nathalie · Good design needs to have an idea behind it, but also an emotion. For me it is about proportion, materiality, and the way a garment relates to the body. I am drawn to design that feels effortless, yet reveals something unexpected the closer you look. And what gives it that depth is craftsmanship. When something is beautifully made, you feel it — even if you cannot quite say why.

“The one value I most wanted to protect in building LEONÍ was never compromising on the feeling.

A presence that reaches you without explanation, a depth that needs no ornament —

that was the one thing I could never give up.”

— Nathalie

Nour Ribbed Silk Georgette Top

LEONÍ has no interest in producing more. Its attention goes entirely to making something that means something. To protect the handwork, the time and the sheer effort behind a single garment, they hold to small limited editions and one-of-a-kind handmade pieces. That is the value Nathalie wants the name to keep standing for.

Siena Draped Jersey Top

Balance · Many Selves

Neither of them draws a hard line between work and life. A young label asks for time and care the way a child does, and at the same time both know that everything outside fashion is where inspiration actually takes root. A passing conversation, a building, the landscape, the particular way someone moves — it does not stop at the atelier door.

Nathalie’s daughter-in-law, Nathalie, grandson, and daughter

They have also learned how much it matters to step back, since the best ideas tend to arrive when you are not looking for them. Building a family changed the way Nathalie sees things. Everything used to feel urgent; now it is clearer to her where her time and energy should go, and what she can let pass.

For Nathalie, finding balance also means accepting that she does not have to fit a single definition. Women are expected to be ambitious, present, creative and caring all at once, but life never runs in that straight a line. Some seasons ask more of one part than another, and rather than balancing everything perfectly, she has learned to let her own shape keep changing.

“You don’t have to define yourself as just one thing.
You can be several people at once, and you don’t need to apologize for wanting a meaningful, ambitious life.”

— Nathalie

Nathalie’s family portrait

Filippa’s days run with work and life tangled together. She lives in Stockholm with her partner Jacob, a composer, in a home full of creative, faintly bohemian energy — late nights with sewing on one side of the room and music and writing on the other.

“Nights when Jacob and I share one space, each absorbed in our own work.
That crossing of two different artistic languages becomes its own kind of inspiration for me.”

— Filippa

Filippa and Jacob

What keeps Filippa steady is trusting her instinct. The sense that something is right the first time you meet an idea carries real weight, and she tries to stay close to it. When she feels overwhelmed she simplifies, and concentrates on what actually matters in the moment. Sometimes what helps most is stepping away altogether — going for a run, spending time somewhere quiet.

Closing · A First Meeting with Korea

TPS · Korea is meeting LEONÍ for the first time. How would you like to introduce yourselves?

Filippa · LEONÍ is an emerging Swedish label rooted in craftsmanship, femininity and a clear sense of form. What interests us is the exchange between a garment and the character of the person wearing it — not only how clothing reveals the body, but how it settles into a woman’s identity. Our collections bring handmade detail and traditional technique together with contemporary silhouettes.

Lore Wool Silk Sculptural Jacket

Nathalie · We are rooted in Scandinavian heritage, but we look past the Nordic minimalism people tend to expect. We are interested in sculptural form, in sensuality and movement, and in the conversation between traditional craft and contemporary design. We work slowly and in small quantities, and we value the hands and the people behind a garment above everything else.

“I hope those who come across LEONÍ in Korea feel something before they understand it.

A clear point of view, an emotion, and a quiet strength.”

— Nathalie

Indira Silk Georgette Top

The future they picture for LEONÍ is a clear one. A house with an identity strong enough that it need not chase whatever trend arrives next. Small enough to protect the density of the handwork and the intimacy of the atelier, open enough to reach the people who recognise the kind of femininity it holds. Timeless but never still — each collection adding another chapter without losing what it was at the start. In Filippa’s words, what they hope for in the end is that LEONÍ comes to feel like a complete world of its own.

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Craft, femininity and form · Stockholm

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