BOY-SHORTS
PEACOCKᴹᴬᴿᴮᴸᴱᴰ
100% COTTON Voile Camo digital-print
BOY-SHORTS PEACOCKᴹᴬᴿᴮᴸᴱᴰ 100% COTTON Voile Camo digital-print
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Short trousers with straight legs and simple waistband. Designed for ventilation. Today they remain casual summer wear. At Jaulhac, Eugène Le Moult’s château, boy-shorts were practical garments for daytime activities in the grounds.
The château’s rural setting supported outdoor leisure. Visitors spent time in gardens and woodland paths before evenings turned to conversation and study of the butterfly collection.
DETAILS
DETAILS
Our article number:9166
MATERIAL
MATERIAL
100%ᴾᵁᴿᴱ Southern-Indian COTTON (as in the 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 heritage sample, made from fabric woven before 1947 in then British-India )
• from fields SUSTAINABLY growing cotton since at least 35AD (according to Roman Empire trade records)
• woven as in the 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 VOILE weave to P.Le Moult designs in nearby villages by English-speaking unionized craftspeople, descendants of the 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 weavers (in a state that has been alternating between soft-Left and hard-Left coalitions since 1957...)
STYLE
STYLE
Studying marbled endpapers in a scientific library, ink pooling on cotton fibres, in Winter of 1925.
HERITAGE
HERITAGE
LÉOPOLD LE MOULT, PIONEER OF FRENCH ORGANIC 1856-1926 : we inherited grandad's grandad's ideals
EUGÈNE LE MOULT, BUTTERFLY-HUNTER 1882-1965 : we inherited dad's grandad's wardrobe contents
CREATOR
CREATOR
PRALINE LE MOULT : A graduate of both CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS and Head Alumni at the ÉCOLE des BEAUX-ARTS de PARIS, winner of the 2005 LVMH Young Creatives Prize, Praline draws on her family history to create what she describes as ‘home-adventure-wear in retro cuts’.
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