Partnering for the first time with a Japanese artisan, Cos conscripted Kyoto-based Kazuki Tabata, an expert at binding, folding and dyeing cloth, for a limited-edition summer capsule collection.
It exalts shibori, a resist-dyeing craft that is at risk of dying out, with Tabata billed as one of the last traditional practitioners.
According to him, more than 100 shibori techniques exist, and practitioners can only master two or…