Light as Embellishment

Iridescence

Light as Embellishment

Some surfaces are not coloured. They are angled — built to catch light and give it back differently as the wearer moves.

Discs, paillettes, scales: each one sewn at a single point so it can lift, turn and fall back. Still, the garment is quiet. In motion, it is not.

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Placement

Density is graded — heavier at the hem, sparser at the shoulder — so the eye reads movement rather than pattern.

“A dress that changes with the room it walks into.”

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