07 — Atelier
Fashion
Summary
Two collections — Border Cantos and UBUNTU. Garments thought through on paper: silhouette, drape, and the architecture of a body in motion.
Intro
Fashion is where I think with my hands. Before pixels there were pencils, gouache, and bolts of fabric pinned to a wall.
These two collections come from my time studying fashion design — mood, fabric, illustration, and development worked through end to end.
Spring 2016 — Collection I
Border Cantos.
Inspired by the exhibition The Border Cantos — a meditation on the unseen landscape of the US–Mexico border, where hundreds of people die every year attempting to cross. I photographed it for its loneliness and desolation, then translated that quiet weight into garments.
The construction language is borrowed from origami: pleats, ruffles, gatherings — flat planes folded into volume. Silhouettes carry the geography of a frontier — folded, layered, withholding.
Fall–Winter 2016 — Collection II
UBUNTU.
Inspired by Tokyo after dark — the neon arteries of Shinjuku and Shibuya, vending-machine glow on wet asphalt, the quiet choreography of strangers moving through a city that never quite sleeps. The collection reads the metropolis as a cyberpunk organism: human warmth wrapped in synthetic light.
Silhouettes layer technical fabrics with traditional drape — high collars, asymmetric closures, a palette of inked black, signal cyan, and bruised magenta. Mood, illustration, and fabric boards developed in parallel, each pulling the collection further between the analogue body and the electric city.
