{"title":"Dresses \u0026 Skirts","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mini-skirt-with-embroidery","title":"Mini Skirt in Merino Wool","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe tailored mini in Archive I's column dresses board was understood as a formal proposition — not casual, not incidental, but a deliberate decision about where the leg begins and what it means for the garment to end there. The merino wool mini skirt carries that understanding. The navy and red plaid woven through the cloth places it within the collection's plaid stripe clash logic: the check as a shared structural language, present here in its most precise woven form.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe embroidery scattered across the surface — small worked motifs placed at intervals across the plaid ground — draws from the Egungun masquerade costumes in the Archive I reference material, in which embellishment accumulated across an already complete object. Here the accumulation is restrained: individual marks on a structured ground, each one placed rather than covering. The embellishment does not compete with the check. It adds a layer of information.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eClean waistband. Fully lined in silk. Straight cut.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLimited to 30 editions. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amayi","offers":[{"title":"8","offer_id":55334028444033,"sku":"AMY.2025.17.1.8","price":625.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"10","offer_id":55334028476801,"sku":"AMY.2025.17.1.10","price":625.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"12","offer_id":55334028509569,"sku":"AMY.2025.17.1.12","price":625.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/0029\/1388\/files\/Mini_skirt_with_embroidery_120_1.jpg?v=1771493299"},{"product_id":"wrap-skirt-in-brown-checkered","title":"Embroidered Overlap Skirt","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe check that runs through Archive I — rust, brown, amber, the warm tones of an African studio portrait where two cloths were worn together with full knowledge of what the combination communicated — here meets a second layer: the wrap construction, and the embroidery that interrupts the geometry of the print. The plaid stripe clash governs the surface. The overlap governs the silhouette. Both work simultaneously.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe wrap skirt as a construction has its own history in the collection's reference material. The archive photograph of a white cable-knit cropped over a draped plaid skirt on a museum mannequin points toward this: the overlap, the layering, two things coexisting without one subordinating the other. The Egungun masquerade costumes in Archive I's reference material take the same principle to an extreme — each additional element added to something already complete, the layering itself the argument. The embroidered marks on this skirt are a contained version of that instinct: placed rather than accumulated, precise rather than total.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFully lined in silk. Adjustable overlap closure with bespoke engraved button fastening, commissioned from a Parisian artisan button maker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLimited to 16 editions. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amayi","offers":[{"title":"6","offer_id":55333940363649,"sku":"AMY.2025.4.2.6","price":795.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"8","offer_id":55333940396417,"sku":"AMY.2025.4.2.8","price":795.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"10","offer_id":55333940429185,"sku":"AMY.2025.4.2.10","price":795.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"12","offer_id":55333940461953,"sku":"AMY.2025.4.2.12","price":795.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"14","offer_id":55333940494721,"sku":"AMY.2025.4.2.14","price":795.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/0029\/1388\/files\/Wrapskirtinbrowncheckered204_1_7f7bc639-80e0-476c-8e13-3e338f0ae02c.jpg?v=1771494571"},{"product_id":"embellished-silk-evening-dress","title":"Embellished Silk Dress","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Egungun masquerade costume from Benin — fully covered in sequins, the surface a continuous field of magenta and deep pink, blue and gold appliquéd birds and leaves worked across the body, the face constructed from alternating vertical strips — offers the clearest way of understanding what embellishment can do when it is not decorative. In that costume, the embellishment is the garment. There is no unembellished base beneath the surface. The sequin work, the applied motifs, the structural face of woven strips: these are the thing itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis dress does not take that principle to that extreme, but it draws from it directly. The sandwashed silk is the substrate. The beading and surface work placed across the front is not added afterward — it is part of the architecture of the piece, defining the silhouette as much as the cut does. The halter neckline frames the face and closes the neck. Full length, fitted through the body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConcealed fastening. Fully lined in silk. This edition is limited to UK 6, 8, 10. Once sold, the edition is closed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLimited to 20 editions. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amayi","offers":[{"title":"6","offer_id":55333838094721,"sku":"AMY.2025.5.1.6","price":1895.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"8","offer_id":55333838127489,"sku":"AMY.2025.5.1.8","price":1895.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"10","offer_id":55333838061953,"sku":"AMY.2025.5.1.10","price":1895.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/0029\/1388\/files\/LongfittedDressinblackAMAYILondon.jpg?v=1767696365"},{"product_id":"mini-skirt-with-fringes","title":"MINI SKIRT WITH FRINGES","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fringe arrives here from two directions at once. The first is structural: woven textiles — a close-up of a pink, rust, and white loom — where the fringe is simply where the weave ends, the warp threads left to fall. The second is ceremonial: the beaded Yoruba prestige caps, objects in which knitting and craft are inseparable from status. Both are referenced without quotation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe lightest piece in the knitwear collection at 120g. The skirt moves where the others hold. The fringe at the hem is not ornament; it is the honest end of the knit, left visible rather than concealed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePairs with the striped cardigan or the jacquard tee. The proportions were drawn from the silhouette references — the short, defined hemline worn by women in the studio portraits, the graphic legibility of the body in a mini with weight above it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eProduced in an edition of 95 pieces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amayi","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":55476909506945,"sku":"AMY.2025.21.2.S","price":495.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":55476909539713,"sku":"AMY.2025.21.2.M","price":495.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":55476909572481,"sku":"AMY.2025.21.2.L","price":495.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/0029\/1388\/files\/AMY.2025.21.2_MINI_SKIRT_WITH_FRINGE48_tmp.jpg?v=1774863910"}],"url":"https:\/\/amayilondon.com\/collections\/dresses-1.oembed","provider":"Amayi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}