Once known as “the devil’s cloth,” stripes retain a sense of subversion just beneath the surface. Historically associated with jesters and villains, they indicated deviation from conventional norms. To the medieval mind, those who wore stripes were rebels and rogues — that is until the political revolutions of the Enlightenment flipped the symbolism around. Diavolo revels in its own ambiguity, treading the line between vice and virtue in a play of color and texture.