THE CASHMERE
Harvesting the
cashmere fibre and our approach to sustainable production.
This precious
product, cashmere, is one of the finest thermoregulatory materials because it
naturally adapts to our body's temperature. We select with the utmost care the
finest, longest and whitest fibres to ensure extremely soft quality
sustainable cashmere with intense colours. This is one of the reasons why the
quantity of each Studio Cashmere 8 product is very limited. Each item is
unique, custom designed during moments shared by the four friends.
Each spring,
they trek across the high plateaus of Mongolia to meet the nomadic goat herders
of the Capra Hisca goat. This breed of goat produces the finest cashmere in the
world. During the cold winters they need to face freezing temperatures which
can reach -40 degrees Celsius. Under their long, thick hair they have developed
a precious down that protects them from the extreme cold, wind and rain. This
natural protection moults naturally when spring comes along with the onset of
the warmer weather.
Respecting the
seasons, the Mongolian goat herders following a 200-year-old ancestral combing
technique recover these precious fibres which will subsequently become the raw
material of Studio Cashmere 8.
All the Studio
Cashmere 8 collections have been imagined, designed and conceived in our little
fashion studio in Provence (South of France) by insisting on the finest
stitching techniques (jacquard, cable, openwork stitch, intarsia, embroidery,
hard dying, hard finishing…). We work daily to offer you a Cashmere wardrobe
with a contemporary design and various models (fitted, regular and oversize)
adapted to all morphologies. All Studio cashmere 8 models are then knitted in
their little workshop in a small town in Inner Mongolia (A Chinese Autonomous
Region).