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  <title><![CDATA[Silk & Bloom]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Silk & Bloom is a Tokyo swimwear and lingerie atelier. Small-run collections in Italian Lycra and Japanese silk-blend fabrics. Shop online or visit us in Minami-Aoyama.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The summer 2026 collection: what went into it]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Twenty-two pieces, a new cotton-modal from Lombardy, and the return of the Hana One-Piece in a celadon colourway. Haruka Nishimoto writes about the decisions behind this season's release.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-07-01</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[On fit notes: why we write them the way we do]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Every Silk & Bloom product page includes a fit note written by Haruka Nishimoto. Here is why those notes exist and what goes into writing them.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rie Yoshida shot the summer campaign in Izu]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[For the fourth consecutive season, photographer Rie Yoshida shot the Silk & Bloom campaign. This time: a small inn in Izu, late March light, and a lot of patience with the weather.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-22</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why we stopped doing wholesale (mostly)]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Silk & Bloom has declined most wholesale inquiries since 2021. Haruka Nishimoto explains the reasoning, and what the one exception looked like.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-01-09</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Care for Silk-Blend Swimwear at Home]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Most swimwear is made to be rinsed and forgotten. The fabrics in the Silk & Bloom collection are not most swimwear. The Nishijin silk-blend lining and the Eurojersey Lycra outer shell both respond to how you treat them, and the difference between a piece that lasts three summers and one that loses its shape after six weeks is almost entirely in the washing.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Choosing Swimwear That Actually Fits Your Body]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Buying swimwear online is difficult. The photography is controlled, the models are selected, and the size charts are often written by people who have never tried the piece on a real body. At Silk & Bloom, we write fit notes from actual fit sessions, and we want to share some of what we have learned about how to choose a swimsuit that works.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-28</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Makes Eurojersey Sensitive Fabrics Different from Standard Lycra]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When we started sourcing fabric for the first Silk & Bloom collection in 2018, we tested fabrics from six mills. Eurojersey in Milan was the last one we tried and the one we chose. The difference was not immediately obvious in the hand. It became obvious after six months of wear testing.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nishijin Weaving and Why We Use It in Lingerie]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Nishijin is a district in northern Kyoto that has been producing woven textiles for over a thousand years. The term Nishijin-ori refers to a specific tradition of complex woven fabrics, most famously used in kimono. The silk-blend fabric we use in the Silk & Bloom lingerie collection is not Nishijin-ori in the traditional decorative sense. It is a plain-weave silk-blend produced by a small mill in the Nishijin district that has been weaving for Haruka Nishimoto since 2020.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-05</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why We Cap Every Style at Forty Units]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Forty is not a round number chosen for marketing reasons. It is the number of units that our team of six can produce in the time between a collection's finalisation and its release date, without rushing, without outsourcing, and without the kind of quality inconsistency that comes from working too fast. We arrived at it by accident in 2020 and have not changed it since.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-11-20</pubDate>
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