Credits

LUMA Collection x Élitis

Racines is a textile collection born from a unique partnership between Élitis, textile creator and editor, and LUMA through its design research laboratory Atelier LUMA.
The result of an exploration that is both aesthetic and environmentally engaged, this collection embodies a shared vision of bioregional creation – rooted in the territory and shaped by its local resources.

Élitis’ artistic direction meets Atelier LUMA’s research approach, and together, combining their complimentary textile expertise, reinvent supply and textile transformation chains while revaluing natural resources that are locally abundant.

Atelier LUMA’s textile laboratory examines every stage of textile process–from fiber to finishing–to develop a bioregional textile with qualities that highlight both material and color.

This fruitful dialogue between artistic vision and applied research has given rise to a collection of textures, patterns and colours inspired by the landscapes and history of the Arles region–between Camargue, Crau and Alpilles.

Each landscape has contributed its resources to the collection. Three plants are used for their natural dyes: chestnut bark, which offers a rich palette ranging from sunny beiges to browns with golden highlights; gallnuts, which are produced when insects feed on oak trees and produce shades ranging from subtle grey to deep black; and finally coreopsis, a flower with cheerful petals that creates a palette ranging from light yellow to scarlet red.

Merino wool from Arles, harvested locally, is processed using a regional industrial ecosystem.

Racines, thus lays the foundation for a new textile model: responsible, attentive to natural cycles, and deeply rooted in local cultures. It demonstrates that contemporary creation can rely on local resources and activate sustainable supply chains enriched by ancestral know-how.

Through this unprecedented collaboration with Élitis, textile creator and publisher, Atelier LUMA’s research takes on a true change of scale: the natural dyeing and textile transformation processes, most of which were prototyped within the Atelier LUMA, have now evolved into production methods capable of creating a large-scale, responsible collection—one that remains attentive to natural cycles and deeply rooted in local cultures and craftsmanship.