Weaving together the threads of women's fate through hand-cut chiffon belts, the Sagene Scarf assumes the form of a symbolic navigator. Its net-like construction references traditional textile-making techniques, invoking the act of individuals merging to form a collective structure. The design brings to mind both a cartographic and a symbolic framework—tracing the entangled identities of women’s identities within dualistic archetypes, particularly the virgin-whore dichotomy.
 
Of memorials built of thread, Sagene becomes a memorial built of thread: a textile map of tension, where each intersection signals both solidarity and restriction. It is at once a diagram and shroud, structure and story. Sagene invites the viewer to examine how form, material, and technique can express the inherited architectures of gendered storytelling, offering up a conversation-starter on gendered narratives in a simplified, wearable format.
 
Worn with the Ersa Trousers, which draw their conceptual foundation from the surface of Botticelli’s clamshell in his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. The hems of the trousers, rendered in silk organza, abstract the shell’s radial geometry into a structured yet minimal gesture of decoration and symbolism. Each rise and dip  of the surface texture is recreated using carefully placed strips of fabric that have been draped onto the top by hand. Their rigid repetition disrupts the fluidity of the textile’s weave, creating a controlled tension between softness and form - intended to make the wearer look like they’re standing in Botticelli’s ocean, or a puddle of water at the very least.
 
With blue bralette.
 
Fit: High Waisted. Straight Legged. 
Fabric Composition: 
Bottom: Cotton Chanderi. 100% Silk Organza. Modal Satin
Top: Cotton Chiffon. 
 
dry clean only