STRIPED CARDIGAN WITH ZIP

The stripe is one of the oldest graphic languages in dress, and one of the most politically loaded. A Swahili woman in Mombasa, photographed in the early twentieth century, her cloth wound around her in bold horizontal bands. A 1960s editorial: a model offshore on a sailing boat, a striped knit pulled over her shoulders, the water behind her.

The zip is the only concession to the contemporary; everything else in this cardigan is as it has always been — clean horizontal bands in wool, a standing collar, a silhouette that works with equal conviction as outerwear over a dress or as the primary piece over nothing else. The proportions are generous. The zip runs to the neck.

This is the piece in Archive I that most directly quotes its reference material. It earns that directness.

Edition of 96.