Issue 04 · Spring 2026
Dispatches
from the atelier.
Field notes, material studies, and quiet conversations with the women who wear — and the hands that build — Huntress.
From the founder
"We started Huntress because the apparel we wanted didn't exist. So we made it — and we wrote down everything we learned along the way."
Why we kill 80% of every prototype.
23 athletes. 6 months of abuse-testing. One rule: if it pills, pulls, or rides up — it dies on the cutting floor. Inside the protocol that produces the 1-in-5 garments good enough to wear our mark.
Read the dispatch →The Archive
More from the atelier.
Vol. IV · 4 entries
March 2026
4 min
The Italian mill that weaves Volume 01.
A family operation outside Bergamo has been spinning compression knit on the same looms since 1968. We found them by accident. We placed an order they almost refused.
March 2026
5 min
The architecture of restraint.
Board-formed concrete. White oak. A vertical wall of native California green. Inside the design of the Carlsbad flagship — and why luxury today means less, not more.
February 2026
8 min
Mara K. on training through her thirties.
Our lead test athlete on lifting heavy, eating well, refusing to soften, and why she stopped buying anything that wasn't built for the body she actually trained for.
January 2026
3 min
On being unapologetic.
Why we cut for the body you trained for — not the one a focus group voted on. A short letter from the founder, written at 4:42 AM after a long run.
Wear the work
Every dispatch ends in a garment
we'd put our name on.
The fabrics we test, the prototypes we kill, the seams we re-cut eleven times — they all converge into Volume 01. Limited production. Numbered. Built for the body you actually trained for.
23
Test athletes
80%
Killed in dev
1968
Mill since
The Dispatch
"We don't write to fill space.
We write when there's something worth telling."
One dispatch. Every season. Never noise.
