mimiTENS

Godzilla, skull and princess kids' mittens made in Canada

They don’t call Canada the Great White North for nothing—it gets cold up there. To Anna-Maria Mountfort, founder of children’s mitten brand mimiTENS, the country seems like the right place to make quality winter wear. “The way I see it, if you buy olive oil from Italy, kids’ mittens from Canada is pretty logical,” says Mountfort on her website. Mountfort started mimiTENS when she couldn’t …

Tic Sweden

Popped buttons ditch needle and thread for a quick new fix

It’s hard to find something cuter than a button. Shiny and simple, the notion serves a single, important purpose—aside from providing fairytale currency—but can be downright infuriating when it chooses to go asunder. Enter Tic, a cheeky little device developed in Sweden by Karolina Rantfors, Mats Gabrielsson and Ljubo Mrnjavac (who have wisely taken the liberty of patenting their clever invention). Tic also holds but …

Svbscription

Andrew Apostola on the latest iteration of the men's quarterly shipment

As CEO of Svbscription and co-founder of Portable, Andrew Apostola is a man of sophisticated tastes. Along with Marc Goldenfein and Samuel Wheeler, Apostola set out earlier this year to introduce Svbscription to the modern gentleman, carefully curating a quarterly package of lifestyle goods. With an annual cost of $1,150, the investment—and the expectation—is high. The value comes from the sweat that is put into …