Article: From a place. A Wol Hide story in The Lissome.
From a place. A Wol Hide story in The Lissome.
Over the past decade, the brand has evolved through a deeply connected network of long-term relationships with the guiding purpose of moving away from fast-paced industry standards & building supply chains rooted in trust, transparency and land stewardship. I seek to create garments with awareness and empathy, staying as close to the natural origins of our materials as possible while honoring the people who grow, spin and sew them.
The Lissome is an independent, collaborative publishing and cultural project founded in 2016 by Dörte de Jesus. Through long-form writing, photography and visual storytelling, it explores beauty in its deeper sense: as a source of wonder, a way of paying attention and an expression of how we care for one another and the Earth. Guided by curiosity and imagination, The Lissome seeks to cultivate a sense of belonging to the larger fabric of life, and to inspire ways of creating that honor its richness and complexity.
This edition, Deep Beauty, explores through conversation and visual storytelling the question of what is beauty?
"The artist Agnes Martin once described beauty as the mystery of life. For thinkers, artists and wisdom seekers throughout history, beauty has belonged to the same realm as truth, goodness or love. And yet today, it can feel like an uneasy word. Hollowed out by the advertising and entertainment industries, beauty is often reduced to surface appeal or desire engineered for consumption. So much around us claims to be beautiful, especially in this time of constant acceleration and visual saturation. But what is beauty, really? And what is its role in our lives, in our human experience?"
