In this collection, I brought together elements like samurai shoulders, achieved by reducing decoration into architectural expansions around the hips and shoulders. Decorative, reflective beetle-wing organza adds dimension, glistening and acting as an embellishment in itself. Fringe clusters in self-fabric add texture, exaggerating the smaller details and creating beautiful distortions.



The embroidery motifs morph from cowboy to astral—tattoo—like, inspired by vintage sailors, when tattoos were decorative odes to life, love, and loss. They were markings of our stories: daggers, phoenixes, birds, starbursts, scorpions, and the universe. I look at how we are intertwined with so many things around us — even if we don’t associate with or align with them, they exist. They enter our thoughts, our days, our lives — often through others.



We are a collage of these odd messes. Yet, we make them work. We meld them, introduce them, pay homage, and reflect on their inclusion in our lives. They add fuel. They set ablaze this idea — this reignition of why we keep seeking to discover ourselves in a new light.