SARTORIAL STUDIES_2013

SARTORIAL STUDIES_2013

This collection is inspired by the book “The Devil’s Cloth”, written by
Michel Pastoureau. Looking back on the history and the link between patterned,
spotted, especially striped clothes and the idea of diversity in the Middle Ages,
People in striped clothes or varieties (various), as medieval latin calls it, were
normally described as something impure, aggressive, immoral, or deceitful. Striped
clothes constitute the usual attribute of the traitor.
There is a huge gap between our contemporary sensibility - which turns “variety”