Lasting things
remain.
Aevon was founded on a single standard, which is that a garment should still be worth wearing in its tenth year and should say nothing, by then, about the year it was made.
Cashmere milled in Biella at twelve gauge. Linen woven in Ireland and finished without treatment of any kind. A cotton-linen from Portugal, cut with the pockets and finish of tailoring. Three cloths and four garments, which is the whole of the house.
Everything is made in small numbers, and the trouser leaves the workroom one operation short of complete, with the hem open so its length can be set by whoever ends up wearing it.
Volume Two follows when the work behind it is done, and not before, which is a slower way to build a house and the only one worth doing.
The First Year
Cashmere at twelve gauge and a linen with nothing on it, both of them stiffer and brighter than they will ever be again.
The Fifth Year
The linen has traded its body for drape, the collar has gone soft, and the trouser has been re-hemmed at least once.
The Tenth Year
Washed two hundred times and hanging better than it did new, with nothing in it that could ever have dated.
The Founder's Note
What I wanted to own.
I started Aevon with no archive behind it. What I had instead was a short list of things I wanted to own and could not find: cashmere at a weight that works on its own, a linen shirt sent out with no finish on it, a trouser with the hem left open so a tailor could set it. Four pieces came out of that list. The only brief the house works to is that each one should still be worth wearing in its tenth year.