For spring, then, Luers explained, they’d dubbed the collection TALIS, after talisman, with all that implies: something of lasting value and meaning which constantly brings a little magical joy. Luers and Claussen were also, he said, looking to the work of early 20th-century female sculptors, like the German Renée Sintenis. “We had this idea of using the fabric like clay, something very pure in its application for form and volume,” he said. It’s a great idea, creating pieces which feel, with the sleight of hand from the disappearing base, light and airy—and also special, a keepsake. Avenir may be on the quieter side as a label, but in our ever more clamorous era, that’s a quality not to be underrated.