In response to our exhibition The Last Straw, our Autumn Winter 2027 collection Needle Point signals a moment of collective rupture. We ask whether humanity has reached a critical limit in how we treat the Earth, one another, value labour, and pull materials apart from their origins through systems that no longer serve life. The last straw names this rupture point, where something has to change.

For us, natural fibre is the right place to begin. Wool, mohair, alpaca, and cashmere carry a quiet intelligence shaped by land, climate, and care. They hold time, memory, and meaning, and are beholden to hands. In working with them, textiles become more than material. They form a line connecting animals to humans, hands to hearts, and past to future.

From this breaking point, we move toward the needle point, the smallest place where change happens. A needle pierces, joins, and repairs. It speaks to the labour behind fibre, herding, shearing, spinning, weaving, knitting, felting, stitching, while pointing to a larger idea. Transformation begins with careful, intentional acts. Here, material meets maker, and every choice becomes visible. The singular self converges with the collective whole.

We extend this conversation beyond fibre to include artists working with clay, paper, and foraged earth, materials that act as thresholds rather than departures. Paper echoes fibre in its fragility and strength, while clay carries the weight of place. Together, they expand the conversation into a wider material ecology shaped by tension between control and collapse, permanence and vulnerability.

From the needle point, we open toward the infinity point, the human heart. Grounded and felt, this is where care begins and spirals outward. Here, craft becomes quietly radical, not decorative or nostalgic, but a choice toward slowness, relationship, and repair in a culture of speed and extraction.

The Last Straw, Needle Point to Infinity Point stands at this precipice of change. We invite attention to small gestures, held materials, and moments where things are intentionally joined rather than torn apart, trusting that even the finest thread, held with care, can extend far beyond what we can see.