“Without nostalgia, we find ways to layer the past, and build new meanings for the future.
Military uniforms, classic workwear, sportswear, and tailoring – all containing contradictory purposes and attitudes – come together. Swimwear peeks out from fatigue pants, a tank top shows through a sheer dress shirt.
Likewise, fabrics are mixed in an intuitive way. Silk, linen, cotton speckled as if with paint; suede laser-cut to create the impression of camouflage; denim left raw, or embroidered like Sashiko.
Some pieces are difficult to categorise: capes softened by draping or gathering, trousers that split open at the shins, shorts that flare out like skirts.
Things come undone, slip off the shoulder, twist around the torso, or hang from the waist.
The jewellery is modular, a repetition of elements – not decoration, but all part of a whole.
Each day is a negotiation between formality and ease, between individuality and belonging, between strength and vulnerability.
What we wear should reflect reality, and allow us to be many different people at once.” – Niccolò Pasqualetti
