DUALITATEM

DUALITATEM emerged from an old question: can a single garment honour both the masculine and feminine without choosing between them? Not androgyny — which dilutes both — but a deliberate study in tension, where the same hand drafts a man's evening jacket and a woman's smoking, knowing each is informed by the other.

The classical Neapolitan school taught Andu Peride the masculine grammar: full canvas, hand-rolled lapel, the soft shoulder of Naples. The Roman institution of the Accademia Nazionale dei Sartori introduced him to the broader inheritance — pattern as architecture, drape as discipline. DUALITATEM brings these together with a question rarely asked: what does the same tradition mean when worn by a woman?

The answer was not modification. The atelier did not narrow shoulders or soften silhouettes to make masculine tailoring "wearable" for women. Instead, the construction remained — the same canvas, the same drafting logic, the same hand-rolled finish — and the proportions were dignified rather than diminished. A woman wearing DUALITATEM is not borrowing from menswear. She is claiming a tradition that was always hers, only never offered.

The edition includes evening jackets, smokings, and overcoats in matched pairs — a man's commission and a woman's, drawn from the same cloth, drafted in conversation. Each piece is hand-finished at the atelier in Iași over fourteen weeks. DUALITATEM is open by private invitation. The first commissions began in late 2024.