Journal

The Checked Shirt
A checked shirt is not, on its own, a remarkable object. It is worn until it is soft, mended at the elbow, handed down or packed into a single suitcase when there is room for very little else. It survives for reasons that have nothing to do with fashion.In Peyvand — Edition 01's founding design — the check reappears inside the leaves of a tulip joined at the stem. It is easy to miss on a first look, which is exactly the point. The pattern is not there to be... Read more...
Every Tulip Begins Somewhere Else
The tulip did not begin in the Netherlands. It began in the mountains of Central Asia, and travelled through Persian gardens and Ottoman courts long before a single bulb reached a Dutch canal.By the sixteenth century, the flower had become an obsession in Istanbul, prized in miniature paintings and palace gardens, its name drawn from the Persian word for turban — a description of its shape, misheard and kept. It was diplomats and botanists who carried it west: first to Vienna, then to Leiden, where a botanist named Carolus Clusius... Read more...