Stockholm menswear essentials brand founded in 2016 by Andreas Palm and Christian Larson. Products are designed in the label’s Stockholm atelier and made in Portugal and Italy — core underwear production sits with a family-owned, third-generation Portuguese factory.
CDLP was founded in Stockholm in 2016 by Andreas Palm and Christian Larson, two friends who decided men’s underwear deserved the same design attention as outerwear. All products are designed in the label’s Stockholm atelier and made in Portugal and Italy; for its core underwear and essentials the brand settled on a family-owned, third-generation Portuguese factory, drawn by the country’s centuries-old textile tradition.
The brand built its identity on lyocell, a wood-pulp fibre requiring less water, land and chemicals than cotton — a material choice that depends on technically sophisticated knitting and sewing partners. That is precisely the capability Portugal’s northern textile cluster sells to the Nordic premium segment, and it is why CDLP’s production relationship has held as the brand scaled into an internationally stocked label with a WWD-reported US$5 million investment round led by Matchesfashion founder Tom Chapman.
CDLP sits in the premium tier of the Nordic-brands-made-in-Portugal wave: higher price points, tighter quality tolerances, and long-term single-factory relationships rather than opportunistic sourcing. For Portuguese textile manufacturers, brands like CDLP are proof that the country can hold luxury-adjacent Nordic business against Italian competition.
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