Leah spent twenty years designing swimwear and sportswear - clothes built to move with a body, to hold up under pressure, to be trusted when it matters. She knew fabric. She knew fit. She knew exactly how a garment should behave when a body is working hard.

Then she became a mother, and the industry she knew inside out let her down.

She couldn't find a single sports bra she could both work out and feed her baby in. Her body was changing in ways no one had prepared her for, and nothing fit the way it should. Feeding in public felt far more exposing than it needed to be. And when she turned to the maternity market for answers, she found rails of clothes designed to last a season rather than a life - cheap, disposable, wasteful in a way she couldn't unsee.

Then, a month before she was due back at work, she was made redundant. On maternity leave.

It was a lot to sit with. But once she'd had a moment to breathe, something in it shifted. "It felt less like a door closing and more like a nudge," she says. "I'd spent my whole career solving design problems for other people. Maybe it was time to solve one of my own."

That's how Jorgen House began. Not with a grand plan and a pitch deck - with a problem she'd actually lived, a set of skills she already had, and a moment that made starting feel more possible than waiting.

What she built is what she couldn't find: active lifewear and base layers for mothers that genuinely keep up with a changing body - through pregnancy, the fourth trimester, and every season after. Pieces designed to support and adapt without asking a woman to change a single thing about herself. Support, not shapewear. Held, not held in.

And because maternity wear is one of fashion's most wasteful corners, sustainability isn't a line on a swing tag for Leah - it's built into the way the whole thing is made. She'd seen the disposable version. She refused to add to it.

There's a reason her work sits so easily here. Jorgen House earns its place the way every We Are The Helpful partner does: it was made by someone who lived the exact thing it eases. Leah didn't design for a customer she imagined from a distance. She designed for the woman she was, in the season she was in - and that's the difference you feel the moment it's on.

When we asked her why she wanted to join us, she said it better than we could:

"What Kate has built is a place where showing up for the women in your life goes beyond a gesture and becomes something genuinely useful. That's exactly what Jorgen House is rooted in too. Clothing that actually helps. That meets a mother where she is, not where the market assumed she'd be." 

— Leah, Founder & Designer, Jorgen House

Meet Leah. Meet the maker. We're so glad she's here.