Built by two
people who were
tired of markups.

Christian Phillips and Luke Stadtmauer started Blackmane with one idea: the clothing people actually want to wear is priced way too high. Luke, a professional freelance brand scaler from New Jersey, had spent years inside the industry watching inflated markups get passed to customers. Christian brought the operational discipline to do it differently.

Their model cuts out the middlemen. No bloated retail markup. No licensing fees buried in the tag. Just premium materials, solid construction, and a price that reflects the actual cost of making something well. The savings go straight to the person wearing it.

Everything Blackmane has become has been made possible by the people who bought early, wore it, told a friend, and came back for more. That's the whole engine. No investors. No boardroom. Just two people and a growing community that believes quality shouldn't be a luxury.

Every piece is cut, sewn, pressed, and folded in small batches — usually nine pieces of a given size. When a fabric runs out, the piece is retired until the same weight, hand, and dye lot can be sourced. Sometimes that's six months. Sometimes it's never. The journal is where restocks get announced.

Orders ship inside the US in nine days, internationally in twelve to fourteen. Shipping is free over $200. Exchanges within 14 days on anything unworn — email studio@blackmane.co and a label gets sent.

Cotton comes from Kuroki Mills in Okayama, Japan — a 14oz loopback that softens with wash and keeps its weight through a hundred cycles. Wool is an 11oz English flannel from a small mill in West Yorkshire. Leather, when it's used, is full-grain veg-tan from Horween in Chicago.

No polyester blends. No printing. No sublimation. Labels are chainstitched in red thread on bone cotton tape, so they age into the garment instead of falling off it.