About the brand
Sivan is a sustainable menswear brand. Interested in functionality and fun, in timelessness over trends, in making your favorite jacket.
Founded in 2020 and initially rooted in bespoke tailoring, it evolved to include ready to wear with a collection centered around menswear tailoring, and sustainable design. Inspired by the history and craft of tailoring, Sivan seeks to create timeless designs, new classics and future wardrobe staples. Sivan aims to add adventure into a menswear market that leaves men feeling limited in their options for expressing what it means to be a man in a suit.
Sivan believes sustainable design is inherent in good design. Responsibility in design, production, distribution and eventual disposal is the future of the industry. It is essential, as an emerging brand, to build in an expectation of ethics as a brand cornerstone.
Sivan is dedicated to creating with thought put into each garment’s full life cycle. From material to fabrication to use to reuse and, much further down the line, disposal. It believes that good design is sustainable design, that clothing should be conscious of the needs of the people that make and use it. Sivan believes that a sustainable model is the only future of our industry, and approaches the challenge of that future with both its due seriousness and excitement.
Sivan is dedicated to exploring what menswear and tailoring can be. With a love of the rich history and craft that built the tradition of tailoring, Sivan proposes to explore where the suit belongs in the modern wardrobe. Sivan aims to provide not just the tools to go about your day, but to feel as yourself while you do it.
Sivan is dedicated to making its garments accessible. Creating a transparent model, open about the components and people involved in each garment. It’s committed to inclusive sizing for our customers to best find what suits them, and to, doing all the above without breaking the bank. The goal of making menswear sustainable and exciting is lessened if it’s out of the reach of the people it's for.
About the Designer
Jack Sivan is a sustainable menswear designer whose work is inspired by traditional tailoring. He is passionate about the craft of garment making, menswear and its expanding definition, and sustainable manufacturing, which he believes is inherent in good design.
Jack’s roots as a designer began with a childhood love of art. Growing up in Boston he had the freedom to pursue a variety of arts before finding fashion. Inspired by historic Saville Row and Neapolitan tailoring traditions, Jack fell in love with men’s suiting. As a teen he taught himself how to sew and created an upcycled bowtie company. He went on to receive a formal arts education at the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a BFA in Apparel Design and a minor in Sustainability Studies.
Jack’s career took him through a range of creative labels before began his own. His brand, Sivan, began with bespoke garments for a dedicated clientele. He is currently working to expand his brand’s scope, creating a ready-to-wear line centered around his twin passions, sustainability and tailoring. Jack is dedicated to making pieces that clients are excited to wear everyday and will stand firm to the test of time.
Jack lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée, guinea pigs, and four sewing machines.