PERSPECTIVE
Two shores, one shared gaze
SUKē was born of an encounter. Tianming Su grew up in Sichuan, Alexandre Crenn in Paris. Two paths, two languages, and one shared conviction: China is a civilisation of immense richness, which the West still too often sees through its preconceptions.
From this encounter came a project simple to state and long to accomplish: to make silk a bridge. To unite the Chinese memory of this material with a certain French idea of restraint, and to create contemporary pieces that carry a story rather than an ornament.
This is why our squares bear the words “Made in China” openly. For us, it is not an origin we keep quiet, but an intention we sign.
Silk goes beyond the idea of a mere accessory. It is an art of wearing, a work in its own right, a living means of transmission.
Qín Yuèbīn, artist of the Silk Road collection
THE DRAWING
A dialogue of lines
Each collection begins with a theme chosen in Paris: a landscape, a symbol, a fragment of history. We then work with artists, who translate it into their own language. The Silk Road collection was born this way, from the sketches of Qín Yuèbīn.
This dialogue takes time. Drawings go back and forth, sharpen, simplify, until the motif finds its place within the demanding frame of the square, where every line must still live once the scarf is folded and tied.
We also want these artists to find a stage here. Whoever ties a SUKē square carries their view of the world as much as ours.
THE MATERIAL
Hangzhou silk
We work exclusively with natural silk from mulberry silkworms (Bombyx mori). We select it with care, so that it is dense enough to hold its shape, fine enough to catch the light, falls lightly and ties without stiffness. No synthetic fibre is ever blended in.
Our pieces are made in the Hangzhou region, one of the great centres of Chinese silk for over a thousand years, by a workshop chosen for the finesse of its weaving and the precision of its colours.
Today's machines carry on gestures handed down for generations. Some gestures, however, remain in human hands: the rolled hems, the inspection of every piece, an attentiveness that cannot be measured but can be felt to the touch.