The Meridian
“A dress should finish the movement you started, and then get out of the way.”
Capsule I · In preparation
An inaugural capsule in preparation. Cut for movement, finished for the light, and made in a narrow run.
The first pieces
The first of the capsule. Each drawn once, cut in a narrow run, and released once.
“A dress should finish the movement you started, and then get out of the way.”
“The back is the part of a garment nobody designs for. We started there.”
“It should read as tailoring from across a room, and feel like nothing at all up close.”
The lookbook
Studies in drape and light
Manifesto
Xelphora is drawn for the way a woman actually moves through a day a dress that holds its line in the heat, a jumpsuit that reads as tailoring and wears like nothing at all. Each piece is developed in Sri Lanka, cut in a narrow run, and released once.
Cut
Drape tested in motion before it is graded. If it does not move well, it does not leave the studio.
Release
One capsule at a time. No restock, no seasonal repetition.
By invitation
The inaugural capsule is being cut in Colombo. There is no date yet — when there is one, this list hears before anyone else.
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