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Jersey
Care guides|May 2025
Jersey is a knitted fabric commonly used to make T-shirts, loungewear, and more. Properly caring for your jersey garments will help maintain their softness and stretch.
Notes|May 2025
On translating colour
How do you capture the feeling of a place in a single brushstroke – or distil the essence of a flower into colour alone? This season, a quiet, hands-on process of exploration led our team to new ways of thinking about function, beauty and the expressive potential of print.
With a summer collection inspired by sculpture gardens – specifically, artist Barbara Hepworth’s garden at her studio and home in St Ives, Cornwall, in the southwest of England – our new seasonal print designs took root in research on opposites and contrasts: light and dark, round and edgy, natural and man-made.
A bright-pink print, custom-made for a silk dress, was hand-painted by our designer Elsa Esser, who wanted to evoke the garden without being too literal. ‘I ended up distilling the idea of a flower to its essential colour – fuchsia – and then started thinking about how the colour meets the underlying texture of the fabric. I was painting on watercolour paper, rice paper, and then on silk, and the silk had the most interesting interaction with the ink,’ Elsa recalls.
‘We didn’t want the design to sit on top of the product, but rather to work within the shape of the dress – so we’ve kept the brush strokes in the print to preserve a painterly quality in the garment.’
She worked with sumi ink and large brushes – the kind typically used to prepare a canvas – experimenting with wetting the material first to let the colour bleed in controlled ways. By diluting the ink or adjusting the moisture of the surface, she could gradually build up layers, adjusting intensity and creating a more nuanced effect.
The process leading up to the final print also sparked wider conversations within the team around the meaning of functionality and its connection to timelessness and longevity. Comfort, wearability and durability are essential – but what about the function of beauty, or the function of craft?
For Elsa Esser, working by hand is not just a way of making but a way of thinking. The physical process invites trial and error, offering a transparency that digital methods often lack. It also deepens the connection between idea and outcome.
‘Many times, individuality is what make us keep a garment in our wardrobe for years. Essentialism and pure functionality represent a very strict narrative – and I think the idea of beauty as function adds something important to the wider conversation on sustainability.’
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Linen
Care guides|May 2025
Linen is a strong natural fibre that gets softer with use and time. It’s breathable and has a soft texture. Caring for linen properly helps maintain its natural characteristics.
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Leather shoes
Care guides|May 2025
Leather is a durable yet sensitive natural material that, if properly cared for, will age beautifully. ARKET shoes are made using selected high-quality hides that have undergone a chrome-free tanning process. Slight variations in colour and texture are natural characteristics of leather, making each pair unique.
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Leather garments
Care guides|May 2025
Leather is a hard-wearing yet sensitive natural material. As leather ages, it develops a beautiful patina, showcasing its unique character and history over time.
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On craft as continuum
Notes|May 2025
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Yoghurt with olive oil
Food|May 2025
Reintroducing one of our simplest, most loved recipes from the first ARKET cookbook, created by our head chef Martin Berg: creamy yoghurt with mixed seasonal citrus fruits, salty Valencia almonds, and roasted fennel seeds. Perfect for a slow, satisfying breakfast or as a light and refreshing dessert bowl.
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Arthur Guérin-Boëri on the search for the unknown
Interviews|May 2025
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Jersey
Care guides|May 2025
Jersey is a knitted fabric commonly used to make T-shirts, loungewear, and more. Properly caring for your jersey garments will help maintain their softness and stretch.