Fine, as in the fabric. Thee, as in you — the way vintage fashion taught us how to dress well

How a childhood spent thrifting became a clothing brand

I've loved fashion since I was a child. The problem was I couldn't afford it — not the real kind, anyway. So I thrifted. Hundreds of pieces, then thousands. And what started as necessity turned into an education: old clothing taught me how to recognise good fabric, how to read a well-made seam, how to tell the difference between something built to last and something built to sell.

I started Fine Thee in 2018 on Etsy, selling vintage — silk blouses, cashmere sweaters, the kind of enduring pieces I'd spent years learning to find. But I kept running into the same problem: I could never find the right trousers to go with them. So I decided to make them myself.

First I spent six months learning to sew. Then another six studying pattern making. By the time I'd handled thousands of garments — vintage, deadstock, new, worn — I'd arrived at one clear conclusion: I love classic style, but I refuse to let it be boring. And the most powerful tool for that isn't the silhouette or the cut. It's always the fabric.

What Fine Thee is today

Fine Thee is a small, independent women's clothing brand based in Bucharest. Every piece is made to order from 100% natural fibers — Italian deadstock fabrics sourced from luxury fashion mills, and raw silk and special cottons woven locally in Romania.

I design every pattern, choose every fabric, and model every piece myself. My sister — a trained photographer — captures each garment the way it deserves to be seen. Genica, our seamstress, sews every piece with the kind of precision that only comes from someone who genuinely cares about the work. Between the three of us, Fine Thee is made entirely by hand, entirely with intention.

We also continue to run our Etsy shop, where you'll find both the handmade collection and a curated selection of vintage women's clothing — all natural fibers, all chosen with the same eye.

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How I work

I don't start with a trend or a season. I start with a fabric. Sometimes it's the weight of a wool I find at a deadstock supplier in Italy. Sometimes it's a locally woven raw silk that arrives with more personality than I expected. The fabric tells me what it wants to become — and I follow that.

Every material gets treated seriously, regardless of its price point. Linen gets the same tailoring details I'd use on cashmere: welt pockets, unexpected collars, pattern pieces that make people look twice. Cotton and silk jersey become the kind of summer pieces you reach for every single day. Boiled wool becomes sweatshirts that feel nothing like that word implies. The fabric is always the starting point — and usually the whole story.

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What inspires me

Books, films, cities — Bucharest, Paris, anywhere with good light and old buildings. Vintage tailoring. The way certain women have always dressed entirely on their own terms: Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Women who never seem to be performing style, just living in it.

But mostly, the people who wear Fine Thee inspire me most. A custom request becomes a permanent pattern. A question about fit leads to a new silhouette. The collection grows because the women wearing it help shape it.

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On pricing

Everything at Fine Thee is made to order — nothing sits in a warehouse waiting. The price reflects the real cost of high-quality natural fabrics and the time it takes to make something properly. I don't inflate prices to allow for dramatic markdowns. What you see is what it costs to make something well.

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Fine Thee is on Etsy at etsy.com/shop/FineThee and on Instagram at @fine_thee, where I share the process behind each piece — the fabrics, the patterns, the work in progress.