MD75 treats wool the way most designers treat vintage denim - as a canvas for controlled decay. This pullover begins as raw Italian merino, hand-dyed in the brand's workshop, then buried under coarse sea salt for 72 hours. The salt pulls moisture unevenly, drawing pigment with it, creating darker pools at the shoulders and lighter fade paths down the sleeves. The result is a surface that looks like it has been worn for years before the first wearing. No two pullovers emerge identical. The salt does not follow instructions.
The hand itself tells the salt story - slightly crisp when new, dense without stiffness, with a faint mineral scent that fades after the first week of wear. Thumbholes are cut raw-edge through the cuff, reinforced with a single line of hand-stitching that will soften and pucker over time. The fit is relaxed through the body, falling past the hip with enough length to anchor layering. The wool warms quickly against skin, then holds that warmth like insulation that breathes. In three months of wear, the salt-fade pattern will deepen where your body makes contact - elbows, lower back, the inside of the wrists where the thumbholes sit.
This is MD75's central philosophy made textile: beauty lives in the evidence of process. The salt treatment is not decoration - it is a document of time, chemistry, and the unpredictable behavior of natural materials meeting artisan intervention. What you are buying is not a sweater that looks vintage. You are buying a sweater that has already begun its life before you put it on.