Image by Designboom Image by Designboom Image by Designboom When I last was in Lille (France), I dropped by at one of my favorite ‘Lille’ stores ‘Serie Noire‘. A great selection of brands, always balancing on the edge with labels like Rick Owens, Balmain, Acne Studios Dior Homme, Haider Ackermann, Goti, Kris Van Assche and Aurélie Bidermann to name a few. Not really looking to shop, but always open for new discoveries, I found some amazing scarfs, ‘love at first sight’ type. You know what I mean… The scarfs are from Suzusan, a label by the Japanese designer Hiroyuki Murase. His family, the Murase have been hand-adorning refined fabrics using traditional and complex techniques for over 100 years. SHIBORI is a Japanese textile finishing technique which, even though it can look back on a tradition spanning centuries at the island state, is virtually unknown in the Western world. As the oldest son of the Murase family, after his studies in design, Hiroyuki wanted to combine his families amazing craft with his ideas on texture, fabrics …