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A person wearing a lightweight ivory cashmere crewneck outdoors at golden hour

Cashmere All Year Round: Why It Isn't Only for ...

Cashmere's reputation as strictly winter clothing has more to do with how it is usually cut than with the fibre itself. A fine-gauge cashmere piece, knitted light, does something more...

Cashmere All Year Round: Why It Isn't Only for ...

Cashmere's reputation as strictly winter clothing has more to do with how it is usually cut than with the fibre itself. A fine-gauge cashmere piece, knitted light, does something more...

Raw cashmere fibre, a kitchen scale, and a folded sweater on a wooden table

The Price of Honesty: What Real Cashmere Costs

Raw cashmere fibre has traded on international markets between roughly $80 and $130 per kilogram over the past several years, depending on quality and season, before a single thread has...

The Price of Honesty: What Real Cashmere Costs

Raw cashmere fibre has traded on international markets between roughly $80 and $130 per kilogram over the past several years, depending on quality and season, before a single thread has...

Five folded cashmere pieces arranged in a row on a pale wooden bench

The Cashmere Capsule: Five Pieces Instead of Th...

The average wardrobe in a wealthy economy holds somewhere between 100 and 150 garments, a large share of them worn only a handful of times before falling out of rotation....

The Cashmere Capsule: Five Pieces Instead of Th...

The average wardrobe in a wealthy economy holds somewhere between 100 and 150 garments, a large share of them worn only a handful of times before falling out of rotation....

Herder's hands combing cashmere down from a goat in the Gobi steppe

From Steppe to Sweater: A Fibre's Long Journey

Every cashmere garment begins as loose, matted down clinging to the belly of a goat in the Gobi, combed out by hand over three or four weeks each spring. What...

From Steppe to Sweater: A Fibre's Long Journey

Every cashmere garment begins as loose, matted down clinging to the belly of a goat in the Gobi, combed out by hand over three or four weeks each spring. What...

An open carry-on with neatly rolled camel and ivory cashmere garments

The Traveller's Wardrobe: One Case, Four Seasons

A single carry-on case rarely needs to survive four seasons in the literal sense, but frequent travellers know the equivalent problem well: a week that begins in a heated conference...

The Traveller's Wardrobe: One Case, Four Seasons

A single carry-on case rarely needs to survive four seasons in the literal sense, but frequent travellers know the equivalent problem well: a week that begins in a heated conference...

Open Mongolian steppe grassland under overcast sky, a distant herd grazing

Pastures and the Future: Grazing, Land, and the...

Mongolia's grasslands are under more pressure than at any point in living memory, and cashmere goats are part of the reason why. This is not a footnote to the industry's...

Pastures and the Future: Grazing, Land, and the...

Mongolia's grasslands are under more pressure than at any point in living memory, and cashmere goats are part of the reason why. This is not a footnote to the industry's...