Etro

7 of Etro's 143 looks draw on a specific dress or craft tradition, as read from the photographs. The house is based in Italy.

• Adras / atlas ikat · Central Asian (unspecified) · Central Asia3 looks

  Italy → Central Asian (unspecified)

  “Large abstract blotches with blurred, feathered edges typical of warp-ikat, rendered in knit. Could also read as Indian or Southeast Asian ikat.”

• Kilim / persian carpet motif · Iran · Middle East & North Africa2 looks

  Italy → Iran

  “Large central medallion with scalloped border and pendant forms, rosettes and arabesque floral fill on a dark ground, laid out like a Persian carpet field.”

• Tartan / kilt · Scotland · European folk & regional dressLook 50

  Italy → Scotland

  “Woven multicolour sett of crossing red, green, blue and yellow stripes on a wine-red ground. A Scottish tartan-style check, reworked as a brushed wool scarf.”

• Hand block print · India · South AsiaLook 28

  Italy → India

  “Scattered small floral butis and rosettes in madder-red tones, plus repeating patterned border bands at hem and scarf edges, as in Indian block-printed cottons; here rendered on sheer chiffon.”

• Kashmir shawl / pashmina · India · South AsiaLook 29

  Italy → India

  “Plain ground with dense ornamental end-border panels of cone motifs and narrow guard stripes, mirroring the field-and-border structure of Kashmir shawls.”