In the fabric archive at Monograph's Refshaleøen atelier, stored in acid-free tissue inside flat steel drawers, lie the remnants of every textile the label has ever developed. Among them, a section labelled simply "Paper" contains the story of the SS25 collection.
The development began in March 2024, when creative director Astrid Vinter brought a swatch of Japanese gossamer silk to textile developer Hanne Lindqvist. "It weighed almost nothing," Lindqvist recalls. "Astrid said: can we go further?"
What followed was eighteen months of experimentation with a mill in Como, progressively reducing yarn diameter and weave density until the resulting fabric — a silk-organza hybrid weighing 11 grams per square metre — achieved a translucency that Vinter describes as "the point where cloth becomes atmosphere."
The Paper Thin collection uses this fabric in seven looks, layered and gathered to create garments that shift between opacity and transparency depending on the angle of light and the movement of the body.
