Constructed from a denim blend in the gold, the Ephemeris top is cropped, and intended to be strapless, with the straps intentionally longer, and meant to fall down upon the biceps of the wearer. The bandeau-construct on the top is finished with a flared panel that covers the upper portion of the chest. The Epheremis Top is entirely hand embroidered, with pearls, glass beads, threads, and sequins.
The Ephemeris series operates as a tactile archive—less a garment than a spatial diagram. Marking a series of inheritances of a set of pearls, it traces the stories of 4 women with a family tree - each woman a controversial figure in her day and age, and ultimately, in the grand scheme of history itself. Whether you deem their relation to the pearls to be a causation or a mere correlation, is left to you.
The embroidered motifs are each deliberately taken for symbolism, from influences within the lives of the women explored in the Basra Tapestry: the Florentine lily of Catherine de Medici, motifs from Mary Queen of Scots’s Oxburgh Hangings, embroidered patterns pulled from Elizabeth I’s portraiture, and the ceiling designs of Hever Castle (birthplace of Anne Boleyn). Together, they form an iconographic system more concerned with transmission than display. Rather than serving as a simple homage, the motifs act as data points within a broader inquiry into inherited grief.
The sinuous threadwork that connects them mimics investigative yarn maps—suggesting a methodology rather than a narrative. That embroidery traces the route of the Medici pearls: from Catherine de Medici to her daughter-in-law Mary, Queen of Scots, and finally to Elizabeth I, after Mary’s execution. It implicates the viewer in an act of deduction: of women as nodes in a network shaped by power, marriage, exile, and aesthetic construction. The embroidery rejects linear storytelling, instead proposing entanglement.
Fit: Cropped. Bandeau-Style. Fitted.
dry clean only
