Journal
Notes from the house
Fashion, design and the story of the brand, in passages from the ARIA NOIR book.
The house
ARIA NOIR, defined
A solo voice that rises above the opera, and the dark, sharp-lit mood of noir: what the name carries, in the words of the ARIA NOIR book.
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Design
“God geometrizes continually”
Sacred geometry, the golden ratio and the patterns woven into El Patrón: the design thinking behind the house, from the ARIA NOIR book.
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Fashion & material
Enter the alpaca
Why El Patrón is knitted from 100% Peruvian baby alpaca, and the fibre’s long history, as the ARIA NOIR book tells it.
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The house
Not designed to die
On fast fashion, the pursuit of beauty and making fewer, better things: the ARIA NOIR book on why the house works the way it does.
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