While creating this collection, I understood there is no closure.
Perhaps this is why one collection always follows another—there is never a finish line, never a definitive answer, only the question that persists. It may shift in angle or narrative, but it remains the same at its core—a question that will never find resolution. In this sense, fashion stands in contrast to technology or science, which tend to move past such unanswerable questions, seeking only what can be measured or solved. But this question belongs to a different order, one tied to secrecy, to a space beyond logic and language. It resembles an agent carrying a secret within a suitcase—a secret he cannot access. Perhaps that is its condition: to remain hidden, never fully revealed.
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This question is outside of purpose or calculative thinking, where things are directed toward an end and contained within a predetermined function. A mistake, however, may disturb this closure. It is not just an error but a rupture—an opening where something different than what was intended comes into being. The mistake is not an accident; it is a revelation. It shows that making is not the execution of a plan but an event that happens in the space between will and resistance, between thinking and the hand. It is not conceptual but embodied, not abstract but immediate. A way of knowing unfolds through engagement, touch, and the body’s interaction with material.
When the hand works—whether in tailoring, carving, or weaving—it does not follow a rigid sequence of steps; it listens. This knowledge cannot be fully spoken or written, for language always arrives after the fact, attempting to capture what was already known in the doing. The hand knows what the mind cannot anticipate. It maintains a lineage of gestures that have been transmitted over time, a tradition perceived not as repetition but as a continuity—something that can only live through practice rather than mere definition.
In this method, I reworked numerous archival pieces, focusing solely on the continuity of this question rather than creating something entirely new. I also deconstructed vintage pieces I discovered, giving them a stage to re-emerge.
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