Pigeons Dancing around a Vine; Jacket
 
Moment in mind: Flocks of Birds dancing around in Florence, Feb 2022;
Embroidery inspired by a Victoria and Albert Archival piece on display
 
The Volare set is constructed as a three-piece, consisting of a cropped jacket, a bandeau, and a pleated skirt. The jacket  is cut short on a checkered fabric with flared sleeves, creating a structured frame around the upper body, while a bandeau sits close and minimal beneath it. Gold embroidery runs across the sleeves, developed to reference the language of repair seen in kintsugi. The placement follows the idea of fractures being made visible rather than concealed, with gold used to trace and define these lines. The skirt is built with box pleats, giving it volume and a consistent, architectural fall.
 
The Pieces To Give Away series focuses on the concept that in the case that a broken bone heals wrong, it must be broken again to heal right. PTGA revolves around the idea of bettering the self through systematically and efficiently inflicting struggle upon yourself by picking the tougher way out, the better way out. Breaking habits, practices, memories, and what you’ve built yourself up to be thus far, to make way for a better self, a healthier self. And on this journey, that we find so similar to the Japanese practice of Kintsugi, we find that some pieces of our history we throw away, some pieces of our history represent the idea of ourselves more than we’ve realised. While putting these pieces ‘of old’ in their places, we find ourselves reaching out for fillings, or as we call them, pieces ‘of new’ - a representation of the new self and our surroundings in an imperfect amalgamation with the old self. The series asks us to focus on what makes us who we think we are - the symbols, the moments, and the habits we’ve observed or enacted. 
 
Kintsugi: putting together broken ceramics with a gold paste, often believed to make them more beautiful, and more nuanced than what existed before.
 
Colourway: Steel Grey.
Fit: Cropped. Relaxed.
Fabric Composition: 
Base: Cotton Chanderi
Inner Lining: Modal Satin
 
dry clean only