Wrap Sweater

The wrap is one of the oldest gestures in dress — a textile drawn around the body and held. The women in these references understood that. A Swahili woman photographed in Mombasa in the late nineteenth century, bold stripes wound across the body with complete authority. A Victorian portrait, upright and deliberate. The wrap sweater carries that posture forward.

At 700g, it is the heaviest piece in the collection. The weight is felt before it is put on — pure wool that settles against the body and holds its shape. The construction is clean: a sweater that closes around the wearer with intentional asymmetry, the volume shifting with movement.

The hand-painted gouache grid studies — the same brushstroke logic that became the jacquard prints elsewhere in Archive I — are the graphic DNA here, even where no motif is made explicit. The proportions are drawn from the same source.

Edition of 60.