Confmendes confecções - the heart of Portugal

His sun couldn’t reach more the heart of Charlie AK.

Behind the similarity of a family’s company, the manufacture of Telmo is helping us to get high quality products. A « made with love » tag since 2022.

Telmo, Portuguese, dark brown hair, dark beard but standing with his wide smile and sunny personality. He offers us a moment to discuss about his company. He exchanged after the
covid period his lab coat for a comfortable tee-shirt, helping his mother grow her company. He confier that it was hard to get a good carrier in the field in Portugal so he decided to enter his mothers company.


The first impact noticed by Telmo after his arrival in the company was the expend of the employees. Their number grew from 5 to 14. 14 people counting his dad, his mom and himself. If you entered the manufacture you could notice the faces concentrating on the needle work. An apprentissage in well condition. Big tables, an open space, an open conversation even with the mother of Telmo. A little woman with big ambitions. The language wasn’t a barrier for her, she didn’t hesitate to ask her son to translate to know more about our business.

The same values are not only about growing a company with their family, it’s also about a concern for the environment. Because of his degree in biology Telmo understands the vulnerability of the planet and ecosystems. He is very careful with sending his waste fabric to a recycling company where they make new fabric. For Telmo, making clothes isn’t just about style — it’s about substance. He wants people to wear these clothes for years.


His production lies in the north of Portugal, just above Porto, in a village with only a couple thousand souls. The clothes are crafted in his parents’ basement, an intimate space filled with sounds of scissors, sewing machines, and casual conversations — more like a home than a factory. There are no expensive machines, no lasers slicing through fabric. It’s clear: this is a place where every person matters. Nothing is rushed. Everything is felt. He speaks honestly about the space constraint, the difficulty of growing when every meter is already in use.

But Telmo dreams bigger. He’s already sketched the outline of a future production house, a proper manufacturing space just beside the family house. A clean, light-filled space with room to breathe. He’s waiting on the government to process the paperwork, a step that feels monumental.

Working with Telmo’s family feels like looking in a mirror. We both studied something else — engineering, biology — but somehow found ourselves returning home, quite literally, to create something meaningful. We both sit, surrounded by family, by fabric, by dreams. We share the same values: about quality, about the planet, about what it means to grow something with heart.