It begins with a pair of shoes. Amsterdam, 2013 — soft leather, carefully stitched, with a tiny animal peering out from the toe. A child sees them and reaches. That is the whole idea, really: to make things small hands want to hold and small feet want to wear. Everything Donsje has made since carries that same instinct — gentle in colour, generous in craft, and built with a quality that outlasts the years they were made for.