(Cloth)
The cloth
We weave our own cloth with three family mills in Biella, Como and Prato. Every season, we buy the whole run.
(Swatch book · SS27)
Eight cloths.
01
Sketch
Every look starts as one line on a sheet of A3 — the silhouette from the side.
02
Cloth
We weave our own cloth in Biella and dye it to order, in runs of 300 metres.
03
Pattern
Paper patterns cut by hand, then a toile in calico, fitted on a real body three times.
04
Make
Seventy-two hours of hand work for a coat: shoulders, collar, buttonholes.
05
Show
Twenty-four looks, one line, eleven minutes. Then into the stores the next morning.