The Monolith coat began as a question: can a single piece of fabric, cut and folded without seam, produce a garment that holds its own structure? Pattern cutter Søren Dahl spent three months developing the answer.
"The constraint was absolute," Dahl explains from the Monograph atelier on Refshaleøen. "No side seams. No shoulder seams. The entire coat — front, back, sleeves, collar — had to emerge from a single piece of fabric through cutting and folding alone."
The result is a coat of extraordinary presence. Cut from a double-width wool developed by Abraham Moon & Sons in Yorkshire, the Monolith weighs 2.4 kilograms and stands partially on its own when laid flat. "It's not armour," says creative director Astrid Vinter. "But it's close. It gives the wearer a kind of architecture."
This studio session documents the coat's final production week — the last cutting, the hand-finishing of edges, the pressing that gives the fabric its final form. Each coat takes eleven hours to complete.
The Monolith coat will be produced in a single run of forty pieces, each numbered and signed by Dahl.
