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Architecture of Flesh
Year:
2025
A graduate collection exploring intimacy, tension, and the emotional behaviour of structure.
Architecture of Flesh investigates what happens when tailoring begins to feel — when structure strains under the weight of softness, when seams bear emotional pressure, and when vulnerability reveals itself as a form of quiet strength. Rather than using the body as spectacle, the collection listens to the places where tension gathers: the sternum, spine, nape, and the internal architecture of touch that clothing encounters before the eye ever does.
The garments move through three states — control, fracture, and stillness — forming an emotional arc rather than a stylistic one. Early silhouettes hold tight, disciplined, rational. Midway, surfaces rupture: seams invert, closures resist polish, and exposed repairs confess the labour beneath. The final looks breathe. Wool gives way to silk; density dissolves into air; structure becomes skin.
Material choices are treated as emotional agents. Wool operates as architecture, bearing weight and restraint. Silk collapses, pools, and falters — the softness that destabilises structure. Lace intrudes like an organic growth undermining order. Metal punctuates the garments as small acts of pressure and repair: staples, clasps, and pins marking where the garment has been held together, or where it almost came undone. Each piece carries the memory of its making; no gesture is hidden.
At its centre, the collection asks how clothing can articulate intimacy without relying on gender, sexuality, or familiar tropes of exposure. Sensuality emerges instead through containment, through the negotiation between body and structure, through the tension of what is withheld. Emotion is embedded in the behaviour of the garment — in resistance, in hesitation, in misalignment that refuses perfection.
Architecture of Flesh becomes an act of listening: to fabric under strain, to the body’s quiet demands, to the instability and tenderness that exist within all forms of structure. It is a study of what remains unspoken — and what slips through the seams.
