Our edition 16 Spring-Summer 2021 features an edited seasonal collection, reduced to essentials, and a new selection of sustainable permanent styles.
Inspired by the vivid portraits of the American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984), showing a variety of characters in their daily clothes with an expressive and realistic vision, and setting itself apart from the usual stereotypes of the male gaze, this edition offers a gender fluid wardrobe.
The local industry of linen is at the heart of this edition. The ecological virtues of this fabric, cultivated in a region ranging from Normandy to Flanders led us to meet cultivators and scutchers, transforming the plant in textile fiber. Linen is omnipresent, both washed, in tailoring, in a light italian weave for shirting, or in soft fine gauge knits.
The seasonal cottons are focused on a Provence « Ampos » print (raspberry, in Provençal dialect) from the family-owned atelier Olivades, that is perpetuating a textile printing tradition since 1818 with its atelier in Saint-Etienne-du-Grès, in Provence. The raspberry pattern has been drawn by the grandmother of the current owner.
This Provençal and Mediterranean influence continues in a « Biaude » work blouse that also reminds of the Djerbian blouza, on the other side of the Mediterranean, expressing one of the multiple sides of the diversity of French contemporary culture.
Edition 16
spring summer 2021
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Our edition 16 Spring-Summer 2021 features an edited seasonal collection, reduced to essentials, and a new selection of sustainable permanent styles.
Inspired by the vivid portraits of the American painter Alice Neel (1900-1984), showing a variety of characters in their daily clothes with an expressive and realistic vision, and setting itself apart from the usual stereotypes of the male gaze, this edition offers a gender fluid wardrobe.
The local industry of linen is at the heart of this edition. The ecological virtues of this fabric, cultivated in a region ranging from Normandy to Flanders led us to meet cultivators and scutchers, transforming the plant in textile fiber. Linen is omnipresent, both washed, in tailoring, in a light italian weave for shirting, or in soft fine gauge knits.
The seasonal cottons are focused on a Provence « Ampos » print (raspberry, in Provençal dialect) from the family-owned atelier Olivades, that is perpetuating a textile printing tradition since 1818 with its atelier in Saint-Etienne-du-Grès, in Provence. The raspberry pattern has been drawn by the grandmother of the current owner.
This Provençal and Mediterranean influence continues in a « Biaude » work blouse that also reminds of the Djerbian blouza, on the other side of the Mediterranean, expressing one of the multiple sides of the diversity of French contemporary culture.