Orchard Moon launches with its debut collection of luxury pyjama sets, featuring gorgeous floral prints in sustainable plant-based fabrics. Inspired by beautiful flower gardens, summer and daydreams, the brand’s first collection comes in a colour palette of blues, leafy greens, pinks, oranges, yellows, peach and lilac. All the prints feature detailed hand-painted florals, to recall the exuberance of summer and encourage the wearer to embrace their own creativity and individuality.
‘Calypso’ dances joyfully across the fabric in bold bouquets of colourful flowers, intertwined with subtle waves and ombre shadows on a dark blue background. ‘Camille’ features expressive impressionist brushstroke painted blooms in pink, lilac and gold on a luxurious warm off-white ground. The ‘Ephemeral Bloom’ print evokes those warm summer days, relaxing under the dappled light of your favourite tree, looking up through the leaves at the glorious blue sky, whilst ‘Wild Rose’ is a super large scale hand-painted design featuring semi-abstract wild roses in subtle pastel shades of pink, golden yellow and minty pastel greens.
The pyjamas are fitted yet flexible, with inclusive sizing and designed to flatter a wide range of body types. The pyjama blouse has wide sleeves and cuffs and a clever reverse pleat on the back which expands to allow for movement, and other carefully considered design touches such as a curved hem which is slightly lower at the back, while the trousers feature a flattering straight leg cut with reverse pleats that expand over the hips and thighs.
The fabric for each set is a medium-weight silky cellulose-based material combining Tencel and lyocell filament, two of the most sustainable fabrics available, produced with the cellulose found in trees. Trees are an excellent resource to make fabric with because they already grow in suitable environments, they do not require intensive farming methods or any extra water, other than what nature can provide. Lyocell filament is a continuous strand (as is silk and nylon) that is spun together to create the smoothest, silkiest fabric. Tencel has a tendency to fibrillate, which gives it a cosy, fuzzy peach skin-like texture. The two fibres combined create a truly unique and sensual soothing sensation on the body.
