Paris fashion house
Cut against
the noise.
Where French refinement meets Lithuanian artistry. Pieces with a clear point of view, made to live beyond a single season.
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Elegance speaks two languages. Yours.
POVILENAS is a Paris-based fashion house where French refinement meets Lithuanian artistry. We create clothes with a clear point of view: precise craftsmanship, expressive silhouettes, and a calm, enduring presence.
Each collection is built to live beyond a single season. Our pieces are designed to be worn, re-worn, and folded into your own way of dressing, becoming lasting markers of personal style rather than passing trends.
The collection
Nineteen pieces, genderless and made in limited numbers. Choose one to try it on in the mirror.
The power of sensitivity
“He loved to draw lines and only lines, creating a sketch that would just make sense to him but probably no one else.”
Fashion found Oskaras Povilenas late. After his heart forced him to stop playing basketball, a year of reflection followed. He worked in a clothing store and began to see the pattern of each piece: a pattern made of the lines he already knew so well.
He studied how to design and produce a garment. Holding his first piece, he felt a great relief. An emotion he could never express, finally put into cloth, in the hope that others would feel the same.
“I am a simple man. I do not need so much. But I need solitude to arrange my thoughts, so that I understand them.”
Oskaras Povilenas, founder
One thread, four cities
- Vilnius2018 · The house is founded2019 · The “I’m Not in Love” collection
- Berlin2021 · A studio opens
- London2021 · London Fashion Week
- Paris2024 · The house settles in Paris
The salon films
From the house’s own films. Hover or tap a frame to let it play.
Where the house has been seen
- London Fashion WeekDesigner, Oskaras Povilenas
- British VogueFeatured in a Vogue gallery
- Schön! MagazineMeet the designer
- Cannes Film FestivalWorn by Ann-Sophie Thieme
- On televisionNikeata Thompson in POVILENAS
- Fashion Council GermanyOfficial member
Made to live more than one life
Every garment is created with its full lifecycle in mind, from the first sketch to years of wear, care, repair, and reintegration.
- A short supply chain
- Local artisans, seamstresses and European manufacturers, with fair working conditions and equitable pay.
- European fabrics
- Certified, high-quality textiles, kept in circulation. Surplus fabric and earlier pieces are reworked into new ones.
- Limited by design
- Small runs stay close to demand and avoid overproduction. Custom creations are entirely unique.
- Call
- +33 7 44 42 69 95
- Write
- contact@povilenas.com
- Follow
- @povillenas