Almost every week I try to spend a couple of days on the road visiting our factories and suppliers. It’s a large part of the reason we now spend most of the year in Portugal, where our production is based. Sometimes we’re developing something new. Sometimes it’s simply checking in on production. I’ve always been as interested in how something is made as the finished product itself. The best conversations usually happen on the factory floor, where someone who’s sewn their millionth pocket shares the one thing that helps solve a problem you’ve been stuck on or perfect a detail most people will never notice. Spending time with the people making our clothes is a constant reminder of how much knowledge lives in the process itself. It’s hard to replace those conversations and over the years they’ve shaped almost every product we’ve made. Forever in development. Still learning. Working to make the best product we can.