Short Cashmere Corset-Detail Jacket

Cashmere should not have structure, and yet this jacket insists on it. The corset detailing pulls the silhouette without force — a sculptural decision rather than a restrictive one, the shape produced by the construction itself. The sculptural references in Archive I's research — a Brancusi-like carved embrace where two forms become one volume, an Egyptian profile relief head where the skull is both portrait and geometry — point toward the same idea: that a soft material can make a formal argument if the cut is decisive enough. The 1950s bouclé editorial photograph of a woman with a single oversized button at the waist carries the same quiet authority.

The interior is fully lined in Archive I printed silk — the pattern world of the collection carried on the inside of its most restrained piece, visible only when the jacket is opened or removed. The single visible pocket button is engraved with the Amayi mark, commissioned from a Parisian artisan button maker. Concealed front fastening. Short length, sitting at the waist.

Edition of 50.