The intentional irregularities are evidence
sun, wind, hands.
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MUD SILK RECIPE
A field process for silk, mud, sun, and time.
Mud silk is not dyed in a factory. It is grown into itself...through minerals, plants, weather, and repeated hands.
Mud silk carries a long history in two directions at once: workwear and ceremonial cloth.. a cloth for fisherman and emperors A textile born on the river...then carried, eventually, into palaces.
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ALAS BLOUSE VINTAGE
2026
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EDITION RAW earth, sun, wind, hands.
An edition is a moment in time. A material conversation. A study. It exists because something real demanded attention. This edition is about rawness…
About the intelligence of the textile before it is corrected. About the selvedge: that honest edge where the textile finishes itself without apology.
About the quiet authority of vintage surfaces found in rural China…textures shaped by use rather than design.
The intentional irregularities are evidence. The tonal shifts are the result of time, soil, water, hand.
In this edition the edge remains visible. NOIR does not produce abundance. It responds to what exists.
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DONG SAMURAI VEST
VST-001 WHOLESALE PRICE 780 €
ORIGIN STORY
Long before it was collected, archived, and admired, mud silk belonged to the daily life of the Pearl River region.
One origin story dates the discovery to early centuries: Hakka fishermen treated their nets with yam juice to prevent rot. Over time, prolonged contact with iron-rich river mud turned the nets dark; blackened by a slow, natural reaction. The same method was applied to indigenous silk, and the textile became known as xiang yun sha, often translated as “perfumed cloud” cloth.
What began as a practical solution; cloth that could endure water, labor, and sun; later became a material of status. In imperial China, the most exquisite examples were sent to the Forbidden City and stored for years, valued like something that improves with time.
It is, at its core, a fabric with two lineages: fishermen and emperors. Utility and reverence. Riverbed and archive. The same earth, just held di erently.
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7 Rue Froissart, 75003 Paris EDITION RAW 2026 earth, sun, wind, hands.
AZUL KIMONO PATCHWORK VINTAGE
KIM-002
PRICE
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INGREDIENTS
Raw southern Chinese silk from Zhejiang (Hangzhou, Huzhou, Jiaxing); Jiangsu (Suzhou); Sichuan (Nanchong); Guangxi (Hechi)
Mulberry leaves, silkworms, fish ponds (a closed loop)
Ground yam (Dioscorea cirrhosa); mordent
Pearl River mud; iron-rich silt
Sunlight
Human labor (seasonal, communal)
Weather (the uncontrollable variable)
Time (as much as you can give)
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NOTES
The process is seasonal and communal; it follows nature’s calendar. Climate changes the outcome; sun strength, humidity, temperature, even the iron content of the mud.
Variation is not error. It is evidence: a real river, real light, real hands.
WHAT THE CLOTH REMEMBERS
Today, the elements remain unchanged: plant, mud, sunlight, manual labor. Nothing synthetic. Nothing rushed.
In Noir’s hands, the cloth is kept whole—made reversible to honor what it already is: two truths in one textile. A glossy, shadowed face born of river mud; a matte, earthen reverse shaped by the yam mordant. One garment, two atmospheres—so you can turn it with the day, and let the fabric speak in both directions.
MARCH 6-9 | 2026
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