Episode notes
For the better part of three weeks, my wife hunted a colour, and I learned, watching her, the single most important thing I know about how you tell the true from the nearly-true, in cloth and in everything else.
It had started, the new collection, as a pressure and a mood-wall and a thread pulled from nowhere; but a collection cannot be a mood forever. At some point the half-seen thing has to commit to a centre, an organising note, the one colour from which the whole body of work will hang and against which every other decision will be measured. Saloni calls it, simply, the colour, though she means something larger than a colour — she means the essential key of the thing, the tonic note, the single true frequency that, once found, makes everything else either belong or not belong....
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