About Us
Aggie Legg started the way most things worth doing do, out of frustration.
I spent years working in fashion, including for a brand that called themselves slow. But slow fashion isn't a label you slap on a hang tag. I looked around and realized: if I wanted to truly live inside this thing I believed in, I was going to have to build it myself.
My grandmother taught me to sew. She went by Grandma Jo, but her real name was Agnes, a name she hated and I loved. Her maiden name, our family name, is Legg.
Aggie Legg is named for her.
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where my dad is an arborist and my mom is a master gardener. Naturally, my interest in fashion wasn't exactly celebrated. But growing up surrounded by people who lived close to the land, who understood what it meant to take care of something, shaped the way I think about making. If I was going to do this, I understood early that it had to mean something. It had to give back more than it took.
That has been the foundation of everything I make.
Every Aggie Legg piece starts with a material that already exists: deadstock fabric, discarded textiles, things that would otherwise be lost. I design around what I find. I sew everything myself, in my studio in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
I spent my career in merchandising and brand operations on purpose, learning how to run a business through other people's decisions so I could make better ones of my own. The making has always been mine. I wasn't willing to let anyone take that from me.
I make for people who want to feel comfortable and happy in their clothes. Not trendy. Not fast. Just well-made things that fit your life and last in it.