Éterne

Éterne

Chloé Bartoli, a celebrity stylist who started as a boutique buyer at eighteen, founded Éterne with her partner Adam Bernhard in Los Angeles, launching the label in August 2020. The name, suggested by Bartoli's mother, means eternal, and the brand has stuck to that brief since, seasonless basics, ribbed tanks and baby tees built from proprietary fabrics the founders developed themselves.

Tops and shirting

Éterne exists because Bartoli, styling shoots for years, could never find a basic top that actually fit right, so the ribbed tank and the baby tee became the brand's founding pieces rather than an afterthought. This grid is the closest thing to the label's origin story. It is a category the brand has never really needed to reinvent.

More Tops and shirting

Bartoli's stylist background shows up as an obsessive attention to proportion, cropped versus long, sheer versus opaque, rather than seasonal trend chasing. This second stretch of tops keeps working that same narrow, disciplined brief. It is more choice within one idea, not a different idea.

Trousers and shorts

Éterne's approach to bottoms follows the same logic as its tops: fewer decorative flourishes, more attention to how a proprietary fabric actually behaves on a body. Adam Bernhard has spoken about developing custom textiles rather than buying off the rack from mills, and that shows up here. It is unglamorous work that is easy to miss and hard to fake.

Dresses

Dresses came later to Éterne's range than its tank tops, but they carry the same seasonless intent, pieces meant to be worn on repeat rather than for a single occasion. That is very much the brand's whole thesis, stated in a different silhouette. Nothing here is trying to be a statement piece.

Knitwear

Cashmere knits are one of the categories Éterne's own about copy specifically calls out as central to its idea of an essential wardrobe, and this grid is where that ambition gets tested against actual craftsmanship. It is a step up in complexity from the label's ribbed-tank origins. Quality here is meant to be felt, not advertised.

Also in the edit

This stretch collects the pieces that round out the label's basics thesis without headlining it, still built on the same proprietary-fabric approach that Bernhard has described developing over close to a year for some styles. It is a useful reminder that Éterne thinks of itself as a textiles company first. Everything else follows from that.

Swim

Éterne's own marketing specifically names minimalist swimwear as part of its essential-wardrobe mandate, so this grid is a fairly direct extension of the brand's founding logic rather than a side category. Expect the same restrained shapes that define its tops. It is resort dressing filtered through a basics brand's discipline.

Skirts

Skirts get the same seasonless treatment as the rest of the range: simple construction, fabric doing most of the work, nothing here dated to one particular year. It fits Bartoli's original complaint about the market, that everything was either badly made or overdesigned, answered in a new silhouette. The brief has not changed since 2020.

More from the collection

This closing stretch gathers whatever does not sit neatly under the categories above but still carries Éterne's central idea, that a basic is worth engineering properly rather than treating as filler. The brand has grown from ribbed tanks into a wider assortment without losing that original discipline. It ends the edit on the same argument it started with.

Our honest take

Our honest take is that Éterne's strength is discipline: a founder who kept the brief narrow, essentials done properly, rather than expanding into categories just because she could. That narrowness means the label can feel repetitive if you want more range from a single order. But for the specific promise it makes, a basic engineered rather than an afterthought, it delivers on the complaint that started the whole company.