CHECK BUSTIER — COLLAGE

A bustier whose boldly cut-away cocoon silhouette speaks for the season — shaped not to wrap the body but to make space around it. The straps are removable, so it can be worn as a bustier or as a skirt: a piece with a sense of play. The hem is deliberately left raw, drawing out the character of the linen.

-Material-

Linen has been with us for thirty-six thousand years.

Flax fibres found in a cave in Georgia are the earliest record of cloth in human hands.

In ancient Egypt it was placed among a pharaoh’s grave goods and used to wrap the dead, held as something sacred. Civilizations rise, fall, and rise again, and each time people return to linen. Not because it followed a trend, but because it is essential.

This fabric is a yarn-dyed check: the thread is dyed first, and the pattern and color emerge as it is woven. Unlike piece-dyeing, where finished cloth is dyed afterward, the color reaches the core of the fibre — and it is this method that gives the pattern its clear outline.

It absorbs and releases moisture well and settles further the more it meets the skin: a little stiff through the first year, and by the next, learning the body.

Beyond that——someone’s time comes to live in the cloth.

-Voice-

Picasso turned to ceramics in the 1940s, late in his life. He carried the free line he had built up in painting straight onto the surface of the clay. Not planned in advance, but in dialogue with the material, the hand moving as it would. This bustier was born the same way.