Katunayake is where Sri Lanka’s garment industry meets the world — thousands of skilled hands producing for labels that will never print this country’s name on a swing tag. In 2019, we decided that was the wrong ending to the story.
The refusal was simple: no anonymous production, no disposable clothes, no design borrowed from elsewhere. One cutting table, two machinists who’d spent decades sewing for foreign houses, and a first pattern — the Essential Tee — redrawn eleven times before we let it out the door.
The name is a promise as much as a label. OVER — as in over fast fashion, over disposability, over pretending premium has to be imported. Wear the standard.
Seven years on, the atelier runs three sewing cells and a flagship next door, with stores in Colombo and Kandy. Our point-of-sale and inventory platform — built in-house, like the clothes — keeps every piece traceable from fabric roll to receipt.
This website is the next chapter: the full range online, island-wide delivery today, and worldwide shipping close behind. The table got longer. The refusal hasn’t changed.