AME

Ame, meaning ‘rain’ in Japanese, is the Danish brand’s first product made entirely of recycled polyester sourced from textile waste. A contemporary choice that beautifully showcases the Japanese culture, its design is in fact inspired by Sashiko, a traditional mending technique involving the use of visible stitches resembling raindrops. What’s more, the collection is available in a range of brown and earthy shades (the result of Teruhiro Yanagihara’s colour research) that evokes the art of Kasane no Irome (‘Colours of the layers’). This practice, which dates back to the Heian period, saw members of the imperial court combining several layers of coloured fabric to reflect the different shades of the changing seasons.