Invisible Dynamics

An organisation can know an extraordinary amount about the quality of its products while knowing much less about the conditions in which they are made. Loro Piana offers a concrete starting point for examining this gap. At its 2025 exhibition in Shanghai, the maison presented a space dedicated to quality control, with Baby Cashmere shown under a microscope magnifying the fibre 35,000 times. It was a striking representation of the attention given to the material. In July 2025,