A garment is only as good as the cloth it is cut from. Understanding fabric is the first step to buying well — and to caring for what you already own.

Wool & cashmere

Nature’s finest insulators, wool and cashmere regulate warmth, resist odour, and soften beautifully with age. Treated kindly, they last for decades.

Natural fibres are alive in a way synthetics never are — they breathe, they age, they remember.

Linen and silk carry the season’s lighter moods. Linen relaxes into a lived-in ease; silk falls with a quiet weight that flatters everything it touches.

Caring for natural cloth

Wash less and wash gently. Air garments between wears, fold knitwear rather than hang it, and let good fabric do what it does best — improve with time.