Wide-wale corduroy is one of the most particular surfaces in dress. The ribs run along the length of the cloth, giving it a direction that plain weaves do not have — the coat falls differently from the shoulder, the light moves along it rather than across it. Double-breasted and straight-cut, structured at the shoulder, the coat is confident in its references: the outer garments in the constructed layered silhouette board, in which the coat functions as the outermost layer of a composed system rather than as an isolated statement.

Large matte buttons, dark and engraved, were commissioned from the Parisian artisan button maker responsible for all Archive I hardware. Side pockets. The interior is fully lined in Archive I printed silk — the private counterpart to the restrained exterior, present for the wearer and no one else. The combination of an austere outer surface and a richly printed lining is the same logic as the embellished evening pieces taken in the opposite direction: the complexity is interior rather than total.

Limited to 50 editions.