Photo: Courtesy of Nicolas Bloise

As Hammond Jr.’s wife Justyna and dog Violet lounge nearby on a sofa, the finer details are under examination. “That stripe kept me up at night,” Doyle says of the hand-stitched grosgrain ribbon that runs shoulder-to-ankle down a black three-piece “racing suit,” comprised of Holland & Sherry fabric and earmarked for his Open’er Festival performance in Poland. “After being suited by Amber, I’m excited for all my shows—but playing Poland is exciting because Justyna is Polish, so I get to see my extended family, and she gets to see me in play in her country,” says Hammond Jr. It was, in fact, Justyna—a creative director that Doyle knew through friends—who first connected the pair last spring. “Albert really wanted a suit; he’s been talking about it basically since we met,” she remembers. “He tried different companies to do custom but it never felt right, and I was like: ‘You should ask Amber, she makes suits all the time for people, you should talk.’”

And after months of trading ideas, with Doyle even flying to California for secret brainstorming sessions, their collaborative chemistry makes it seem as if they’ve known each other much longer than a few long-distance months. Now, as the wardrobe takes shape, they’re able to recognize a shared passion for classic lines and the unmistakable cool factor of polished silhouettes. “I always wore a suit when I was young because no one could tell me no. They might not like you, but they had to let you in,” says Hammond Jr. And Doyle, whose preference for tailored pieces is mirrored in her own workwear for the day—a broad-shouldered, striped lurex blazer with oversized lapels and matching wide-leg trousers—agrees that the suit has a timeless attitude. “I think that’s what’s really interesting about the whole idea of the suit, is that it’s stood the test of time, and for whatever reason, it has power to it,” she offers. “There are all of these things that we think of subconsciously, we associate it with business, power, wealth—but even when you twist it around in this very modernized way, you still have all of those ideas behind it.”