Embrace Velvet Season

Embrace Velvet Season

The onset of autumn promises the prospect of layered style, but even more than that it means velvet season is here at Favourbrook.  Velvet's origins reach back to ancient times, with pile-woven fabrics appearing around 2000 BC in Egypt and China, using silk for intricate textures. It was popularized in Europe from the 14th century onward, arriving via Silk Road trade and refined by Ottoman and Italian artisans. In Italy, during the Renaissance, weavers in regions like Lucca and Genoa elevated velvet to a status symbol, adorning royalty and the elite with its lavish sheen, symbolising femininity and refinement.

 

Velvet's soft pile offers a tactile elegance, with a subtle lustre that shifts in light, creating an aura of depth and sophistication. Velvet's structure provides warmth and resilience, while its fluid drape flatters the figure, enhancing femininity without constraint. In our long-line coats, these attributes shine: the extended silhouette elongates the body, conveying graceful confidence and a sense of timeless allure.

 

Our AW25 velvet line-up is an eclectic one, full of vibrant tones and stunning embroidery details. Throughout the collection, we've used superior silk velvet for its lightness and sheen. Our at-the-knee styles include the Eton coat, which comes in a variety of soft powdery tones; and the Westminster coat, a perennial favourite notable for this season's beautiful embroidery details rising from the skirts. Below-the-knee options are equally as elegant, starting with the statuesque Long Swing coat in navy, providing a very chic long-line silhouette; the Carnaby coat comes in a plethora of flavours, each sharing delicate embroidery details; and the immaculately tailored Whitehall coat, floral embroidery at its finest.

Our velvet jacket and waistcoat collections have also expanded this season, offering seductive formalwear styles such as Le Smoking dinner jackets to complement the shorter waisted styles of the Chiswick, Camden, and Victoriana jackets. Our velvet waistcoats provide another tailored way to wear velvet, pairing well with our trouser collection.

Explore the collection at favourbrook.com/collections/jackets-and-coats and let velvet's rich heritage elevate your wardrobe this season.

 

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