About Us

Our Founder Story

Fashion wasn't just my career. It was my whole world.

For 25 years, it was the thing I woke up for, the thing I poured everything into. It was my identity, my community, my creative outlet, my escape. If I'm honest — it was my escape from everything. The chaos of life, the noise, the hard stuff. Fashion held me. It was my safe place. It was, in the most literal sense, my ESCP from the world.

Then, just after I turned 50, my life came apart at once.

I had recently separated. The relationship that had been the backdrop of my adult life was over. And somewhere in the middle of trying to process that — to figure out who I was on the other side of it — I was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer.

There are no words for what that felt like. Gutted doesn't cover it. It shattered me. To the absolute core. Because it wasn't just a diagnosis. My whole life had been fashion — it was my child, my family, my everything. And now my body, my confidence, the version of myself I had built over 50 years — all of it felt like it was being taken at once.

Treatment changes you. Surgical menopause changes you faster than you're prepared for. Almost overnight, I felt like a stranger in my own skin. The quiet confidence I'd carried for decades went silent. Intimacy — which had always felt like mine — became complicated, tender, unfamiliar. And I was navigating all of this alone, in a body I didn't quite recognise anymore, without a language for any of it.

So I went looking. For something — a product, a brand, anything — that acknowledged this experience with care. With elegance. With the same attention to design and detail I had given to every corner of my professional life.

What I found was a market that didn't see me at all.

Products that felt clinical, cold, or almost laughably juvenile. Branding that made me feel like a problem to be managed, or invisible altogether. Nothing designed with discretion. Nothing that treated intimacy as part of wellness — as something a real, complex, intelligent woman might want to tend to beautifully.

I had spent my entire career understanding that design shapes how a woman feels about herself. That the right object, held the right way, changes everything.

Nobody had done that here.

So I did.

ESCP was built for women navigating changing bodies, changing identities, and the quiet work of coming back to themselves — on their own terms. Not clinical. Not loud. Not apologetic.

Discreet. Considered. Beautifully designed. And completely yours.

I built what I needed. I hope it's what you need too.

— Amanda, Founder of ESCP