<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>VANCE — Journal</title><description>VANCE is the personal label of Kairo Vance, a New York designer and creator. Reconstructed tailoring, monochrome essentials and one-of-one archive pieces — cut in New York, worn everywhere.</description><link>https://vance-es3.pages.dev/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Building a label in public</title><link>https://vance-es3.pages.dev/blog/building-a-label-in-public/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vance-es3.pages.dev/blog/building-a-label-in-public/</guid><description>Why VANCE shares the messy middle — the toiles, the rejected cuts, the 2am edits — instead of just the finished look.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>studio</category><category>process</category></item><item><title>The case for monochrome</title><link>https://vance-es3.pages.dev/blog/the-case-for-monochrome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vance-es3.pages.dev/blog/the-case-for-monochrome/</guid><description>Colour is a shortcut to attention. Removing it forces the cut, the cloth and the body to do the talking.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mono</category><category>philosophy</category></item><item><title>Notes from Capsule 04 — Archive</title><link>https://vance-es3.pages.dev/blog/notes-from-capsule-04/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vance-es3.pages.dev/blog/notes-from-capsule-04/</guid><description>One-of-one pieces, hand-finished. Why we cap the run at the number we can actually make well.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>archive</category><category>drops</category></item></channel></rss>