The Thousands

The scarves of Andéol bear names bordering on trip-ical brainforest – and being a magic-pen-toting child of Byron, I love that. Aditi Atomic. Thread Rhombus. Hara Sisal. Kamadeva’s Arrow. Vishnu Power-egg Kiteflyer. That last one is made up. But the prints, custom-designed by textile designer Emilie Cacace, conjure a kind of straight, pure-sense beauty. Each collection is developed from travel snaps, crystals, swatches and artefacts parlayed into digital prints and pressed onto super-soft silk, printed cushions and plaited silk necklaces at the Think Positive Designer Prints studio in Alexandria.

Vedas Maya takes us to a lush Guatemala and the beliefs of the ancient Mayans via India and the Vedic calendar, whose Hindu scriptures amazingly mirror that of a civilisation half a planet away. Both belief systems feature the Galactic Centre (the rotational centre of the Milky Way) and have a big-ass X marked on December 21, 2012. That’s this year guys, clock it! In the meantime wrap an Andéol round your dome, or dangle some hay in one (they do that in the lookbook). You might not stop the apocalypse but the experience will be satisfying both aesthetically and spiritually, which actually might be the same thing.