Straight Silk Trousers

The column dress translated to a trouser: a straight, uninterrupted line from waist to floor, nothing interrupting the fall of the cloth. The column dresses board in Archive I's reference material — the 1960s silhouettes, the tailored shifts, the clean armhole and pressed line — pointed consistently toward this kind of precision. The simplest thing, done completely.

Double-sided silk satin has a surface quality that changes with every condition of light — neither matte nor reflective, the two sides of the cloth behaving differently depending on which face sits against the body. A mid waist, a pressed crease, side seam pockets. The most considered piece in the collection arrives through restraint rather than complexity. Nothing about it is incidental.

Edition of 30.