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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. 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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":"bib-shirt-in-white","title":"Bib Shirt in White Cotton","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe bib is a Victorian construction: a structured front panel that sits between collar and waist, the shirt announcing itself as a formal object before anything else is understood about it. The cabinet photograph in Archive I's reference material — a woman standing beside a stack of books, plaid and plain combined with complete authority, her posture the argument — points toward this: women who dressed in that era did so with full knowledge of what each choice communicated. The bib shirt carries that understanding into cotton.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe botanical embroidery worked at the bib is the flame lily — Gloriosa superba, Zimbabwe's national flower. The petals reflex dramatically as the flower opens, curling back on themselves from yellow at the base through to deep scarlet at the tip, the margins undulating, the form unlike anything else in the botanical world. This is where Archive I becomes specific rather than historical. The embroidery is not a reference to botanical illustration as a genre. It is one flower, from one country, belonging to the women in one family line — a maternal inheritance worked in thread onto the most formal part of the shirt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe decision to embroider rather than print keeps the mark at human scale — present and considered up close, reading as texture from a distance. The extended cuff at the sleeve gives the piece its second formal note. Everything above the waist is deliberate. 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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. 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