Atlas Weave

The editorial

Atlas Weave starts from the opposite direction to everything else we have made. The cloth is chosen first and it is chosen from the whole world: Irish undyed wool, Japanese selvedge indigo, Egyptian long-staple cotton, Scottish lambswool, Peruvian alpaca, Italian poplin.

African design then enters as engineering, not as surface. A Nigerian aso-oke loom is narrow, so its width sets the depth of our placket. Bogolan's clay dye shifts as it ages, so we spun that shift into yarn instead of printing it. Moroccan braiding replaces the buttonhole entirely — the blazer closes on a cord loop, and the lapel has no notch at all.

We removed the V-neck from the capsule on purpose. Seven pieces, seven original necklines: offset mandarin, squared bateau, sculpted crew, rolled funnel, asymmetric shawl, notch-free stand collar and split boat. Nothing here borrows a silhouette to hang a print on.

That is the philosophy in one line — one world, many cultures, one vibe. Worn anywhere, it reads as tailoring. Read closely, it reads as home.

Fusion influences

• Europe

  African cloth cut to Italian and Portuguese tailoring.

• USA

  African cloth layered with American denim and street form.

• Asia

  African cloth engineered with Japanese and Korean textiles.

• Pacific / Oceania

  African cloth in Pacific colour, weave and open-air ease.