Angelina Jolie is putting in the work on her new sustainable fashion brand, Atelier Jolie. In a new post on the brand’s Instagram, the actor and director is seen sitting with Japanese artist Mitsugu Sasaki as they admire some of his patchwork denim designs made for the label.
Jolie wears one of the pieces herself: a two-tone blue patchwork denim button-up, which she pairs with a silky champagne maxi skirt. She has her hair up in a tight ponytail and wears black eyeliner and a pink lip. Next to her is her son Pax Jolie-Pitt, 20, who matches her in a blue denim button-up, which he leaves open and layers over a classic white tee. He finishes the look with ripped jeans and white socks.
In the caption, Jolie wrote that Sasaki’s patchwork creations are “born out of a love for old fabrics, influenced by the Sashiko sewing method.” He is one of the first designers carried at the atelier. “Everything he makes is based on the idea of adding value to clothing that has once been discarded, using upcycled fabrics from Japan and Paris, some of which are over 100 years old. You can find select pieces by Mitsugu Sasaki at Atelier Jolie,” the actor wrote.
Jolie founded Atelier Jolie in December 2023, to show “that an ethical and sustainable lifestyle isn’t a lesser life with limitations,” she explained to Harper’s Bazaar over email. “It is better quality of life, with personal creativity and community at its center.”
And because Jolie goes all in on everything she does, her atelier resides in a New York art-world landmark, 57 Great Jones Street—the former studio of famed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The neo-Expressionist lived and worked there in the 1980s, after renting the space from none other than building owner Andy Warhol.
