Collection: Cashmere

Cashmere, and cashmere blended with wool — from the archive.

The word covers a wide range, so it helps to read the label closely. Pure cashmere is the whole cloth; cashmere and wool is a blend, and often the more practical coat, since wool adds structure and resilience that pure cashmere trades away for softness. Camel hair sits alongside both as a noble fibre in its own right.

Some pieces name the mill rather than the maker. Piacenza Alashan and supercashmere refer to specific grades of fibre; Colombo Borgosesia and Loro Piana are the houses that spun and wove it. A coat can carry the mill's name on the cloth and the tailor's on the collar.

What separates one cashmere coat from another is fibre length, fineness and ply — not the word on the label. Read The Cashmere Story for how those are graded.

Each piece here is one of one. When it is gone, it is gone.