The jacket on the hanger is faded just so – each thread along its cuff bearing the soft wear of time. There’s a patch on the back, not factory-applied but hand-stitched, off-centre and unapologetic. Paint flecks dust the collar like a memory. If you didn’t know better, you’d think it had been rescued from a junk shop.

There are childhoods that feel like collisions: beauty brushing up against cruelty, tenderness tangled with neglect. For Robin Brown, founder of Magnolia Pearl, such contrasts defined her early life and would eventually inspire the philosophy stitched into every garment her brand creates today.