Porto

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The Porto Collection

Porto Women's Clothing

Porto was born out of a move to Italy. Founder Ana Klerkx relocated in the early 1990s and became immersed in Italian art, history, and craft — an influence that still runs through every collection she designs.

Made across studios in San Francisco and Italy, Porto blends a European sensibility with Japanese design principles: deconstructed silhouettes, considered proportions, and a quiet, sculptural ease. It's clothing built less around trends and more around how a piece actually moves with you.

“Proof that comfort and creativity were meant to go hand in hand.”

The idea behind every Porto collection
Origin Italy, early 1990s
Made In San Francisco & Italy
Signature Custom prints & stretch trousers
Sizing Numeric 00–4 (US 2–14)

The Porto Story

Each season centers on Porto's own custom prints and luxury stretch fabrics, designed to travel well and layer easily — pieces meant to carry you from a morning meeting to an evening out without a costume change. At Evie Lou, Porto is where our shoppers go for effortless, well-traveled pieces that still feel distinctly considered.

What Is Porto Clothing Known For?

Porto built its name on print, texture, and stretch fabrics that move the way your body moves. The label's stretch trousers are the anchor of the collection, cut to hold their shape throughout the day without ever feeling restrictive, and its fluid jackets carry that same easy style of movement into layers.

This fall's edit brings in newer prints and richer colorways, alongside relaxed dresses and layering jackets built to transition from daytime into evening without a costume change.

When Can I Find Porto Clothing?

New prints and colorways arrive in waves primarily through the Spring and Fall seasons, so pieces marked as new arrivals reflect the most recent shipment rather than everything currently in stock.

Evie Lou carries one of the most complete Porto assortments available in the USA — it's the store's largest specialty brand assortment — spanning pants, dresses, jackets, and tops across sizes.

What Is It Like to Wear Porto Pants?

Porto's stretch trousers are the top reason so many customers come back season after season. Cut with enough give to allow movement through a full day — sitting, standing, studio to street — without losing shape, these pants are built in prints and solids that look finished, not busy.

A single pair tends to work as both the statement of an outfit and the piece that makes everything else easier to build around.

As Evie Lou's Largest Specialty Assortment

Porto is less a single collection than a full wardrobe in itself: pants, dresses, jackets, and layering pieces designed to move easily from working at the studio to an evening dinner out. Curated, wearable, and quietly bold — this is where the store's “curated for the creative soul” identity lives most fully.

Styling, Layering & the Spotlight

How to Layer Porto Jackets and Dresses?

Porto is designed intentionally for easy layering, not complicated styling. A relaxed dress will work as a base layer under a fluid jacket, with enough room to add a scarf or second layer once the weather turns.

Because the prints and colors make such a foundational statement, the rest of the outfit can follow simply: one jacket, one dress or trousers, done. It's style built on a formula that can move from a studio visit directly into dinner without a stop at home to change.

Why This Collection Deserves the Spotlight

Porto earned its spot as Evie Lou's largest specialty assortment by being the collection that works for nearly every person who shops here — the customer who's been with us for a decade, and the one who found the store just last month. It's curated without being sparse, bold without being difficult to wear, which is harder to balance than it looks.

For the full sense of how Porto fits into the rest of the season's arrivals, the Evie Lou storefront is the place to start.

The Porto Fabrics

Porto is known for a handful of distinct fabrics, each suited to a different kind of day — and each noted in the product description, so you always know exactly what you're getting.

G

Stretch Twill

A woven stretch fabric used mostly in pants and jackets, with the occasional sleeveless sheath dress. Available year-round.

J

Jet Jersey

A fluid, lightweight polyamide knit that stays cool against the skin. Offered across every silhouette — tops, dresses, pants, and jackets. Available year-round.

F

Avedon Stretch

A woven that sits between G and J in weight. Once a spring/summer exclusive, now carried into fall for shoppers who want something in between.

P

Ponte Knit

A heavier knit reserved for fall and winter deliveries, for the days G and J don't feel warm enough.

Quick Facts at a Glance

Sizes
00–4 (maps to roughly US 2–14)
Made In
San Francisco, USA & Italy
Signature Fabrics
G (stretch twill), J (jet jersey), F (Avedon stretch), and a heavier ponte knit for fall/winter
New Arrivals
Land in waves, primarily during the Spring and Fall seasons

Frequently Asked Questions

Porto is known for a few distinct fabrics, each suited to a different kind of day. The “G” fabric is a woven stretch twill, used mostly in pants and jackets (plus the occasional sleeveless sheath dress). The “J” fabric is Porto's jet jersey — a fluid, lightweight polyamide knit that feels cool against the skin — offered across every silhouette: tops, dresses, pants, and jackets. Both G and J are available year-round.

For shoppers who find jet jersey too light for winter and G too heavy for summer, Porto also offers the “F” fabric, Avedon stretch — a woven that sits between the two weights, once reserved for spring/summer but now carried into fall as well. A heavier ponte knit rounds out the fall/winter lineup. Evie Lou notes the fabric used in every product description, so you always know exactly what you're getting.

Yes — that's part of the label's identity. A relaxed Porto dress or pair of stretch trousers layers easily under one of the line's fluid jackets, making it simple to go from a studio visit straight into dinner.

New Porto shipments land in waves throughout the season — primarily in the Spring and Fall — so new prints and colorways are added regularly rather than all at once.

Porto uses its own numeric scale rather than standard alpha or U.S. sizing: 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, which maps roughly to U.S. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12–14.

It can. Porto uses a European-style numeric scale (00–4) instead of the familiar XS–XL or U.S. numeric sizing used elsewhere at Evie Lou, and its largest size (US 12–14) runs smaller than the XL/Large ceiling on brands like Cut Loose, Rundholz, and especially Alembika. If you're used to shopping our other lines, it's worth sizing up your usual Porto pick or checking the garment measurements before you buy.

Shop new shipments of Porto pants, dresses, and jackets from the new arrivals now, with fresh prints and colors as each shipment lands.