Vicuña

The rarest of all fibers, once reserved for Inca emperors, vicuña remains nature’s most precious gift. Its scarcity is inherent: each animal yields only a small handful of fleece, sheared with care no more than a few times in a lifetime, and only in spring. From this comes a fiber of unmatched fineness, lightness, and warmth.

No longer at risk of extinction, the vicuña endures as a living treasure of the Andes — a land and culture that first revealed to me the beauty of this “Fibre of the Gods.” Presenting it within my collection is both an honour and a responsibility: to preserve its legacy, to support the communities who tend these animals, and to ensure that its quality may one day become more widely shared.