The Spirit of The House
Cloth carries traces of place, season, hand and time.
There was a time when the story of what we wore sat much closer to the surface. One knew the fibre, the field, the plant, the dyer, the hand. Cloth arrived with a sense of where it had been.
Cécile de Fleur holds that knowledge close.
To dress well is also to know something of what touches the body: where it began, whose hands carried it forward, and what of its first life still remains.
“What if the way we dress were guided by some of the same principles that have long guided the way we heal?”
Ahimsa Silk
Volume I begins with silk in its natural state.
Undyed and unbleached, the GOTS-certified silk is chosen for the character already present within the fibre, including its natural tone and subtle variation.
This first chapter of Cécile de Fleur begins there, with respect for what the material already carries.
Made to order in New York.
Editorial requests welcomed.