Javier Piña Barong Bespoke Peau de Soie in Black

Peau de Soie in Black Obsidian — composed

cut short-sleeved and easy — the formality of piña without the occasion to demand it

The sleeves are the argument: the standing butterfly sleeve of the Filipino terno

In Wheat Silt the embroidery and the surface read as one — the composition revealing itself only as the light shifts

Javier Piña Barong Bespoke Peau de Soie in BlackA field, at the chest. Pia hand dyed to a bright citron, the embroidery telling one scene in four colors: the rice field, the kalesa, the carabao Filipino farm life, worked by hand and scattered across the cloth. Fine beadwork runs the placket. Lined throughout over an undershirt, or on its own. The brightest thing in the room, and the most rooted. Design Notes Pia, hand dyed Citron Wash Four color farm life scene, rice fields, kalesa, carabao, hand