CHECK DRESS — VESSEL

A check dress in which volume speaks for the season. Built to find its form through gathering alone, it relies on a finely woven linen to keep from swelling too far, carrying volume that flows to the floor.
A wave-line seam sits below the bust, while the side seams and the curved seam at the hem work as functional lines that construct the silhouette.
An antique gold exposed-tooth zip is set at the back.

-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-

A piece drawn from the ceramics Picasso gave himself to late in life.
Taken with forms that round and rise softly, we took the cloth in hand and let the needle run on instinct, spinning out a shape. Every crease, swell and curve carries an “instinct” that mirrors the strength and softness of a fired vessel.
An expression completed only in the wearing: beyond the frame of clothing, standing as a work of art, offering a new story each time it is worn.