Six in residence at a time. Twelve months each. One capsule. One drop.
Cohort-based. Six houses in residence at any time, each for ~12 months. One capsule shipped per residency. New cohort opens twice a year.
Established designers in collaboration. Influencers with audiences large enough to anchor a brand. Selectivity is the product — Fobou produces few houses well, not many badly.
The studio. The maker. The drop. The store. The shipping. They keep the IP, keep the spotlight, keep the brand. We stay behind.
Residency ends with a shipped capsule. Houses graduate to independence — or stay on as alumni for future revivals. Every drop enters the Archive: a permanent provenance record useful to collectors and resale.
A residency for designers and creators with the audience but not the production stack. The studio. The maker. The drop. The store. The shipping. They stay in front. We stay behind.
Designers, creators, and alumni revivals welcome. We work with people whose audience is already there. If that's you, write to us — short pitch, work samples, what you'd ship.
Apply for cohort 03A permanent record of what we make and who made it. Useful to collectors and alumni; quietly valuable on the resale side.