SILK BATHROBE 01 // BENZIN

I once saw a bathrobe considered one of the best in the world and thought: this can be done even better. I didn't want just a more expensive robe. I wanted something you put on and feel across your entire body. That's why silk. It should glide over your skin. Wrap you without any roughness, without resistance. Originally it was meant to be a single construction. But the tailor who took it on did something I hadn't even planned.

He made it double-sided. Two layers of silk joined into one. And suddenly the robe gained weight. You pick it up and feel you're holding something substantial. You put it on and all that weight starts flowing over your body. But silk alone wasn't enough. I wanted a pattern. A grid, but not the kind you associate with a shirt. More technical. A little science fiction. From a distance you see one thing. Come closer and you see something completely different.

But the most important thing was the color. Years ago, when I made knives, I watched metal being hardened. Under heat, steel takes on an incredible sheen: blue, violet, gold, sometimes almost like petrol. Later I saw the same effect in petrol spilled on wet asphalt. I remembered it. That color doesn't really exist as a single color. It depends on the light. On the angle. On how you move. That's exactly what I wanted on silk.

Then the construction. I didn't want a classic belt that hangs at the front, twists and sooner or later disappears. We built an adjustment system into the sides. Cinch it exactly the way you want. The lapels are cut like a jacket. The cuffs are turned up like a jacket, too. Because apparently I can't make even a bathrobe without putting a bit of a suit into it. SILK ROBE 01. Karl Tomas. Technically a robe. I never said you have to wear it like one.

Details

• Composition: 100% silk, double layer
• Details: gold snaps, side adjustment, jacket lapels