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Conceptual collection / chaos + growth

RESURGENCE

Chaos vs. Growth

A collection tracing the movement from overstimulation and numbness toward contact, resilience and growth.

Eco-printingSilkWool
RESURGENCE collection cover
collection cover01
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Premise

What does resurfacing look like on the body?

RESURGENCE begins with the feeling of being lost: overstimulated, detached and difficult to reach. The collection treats that state as a visual structure rather than a moodboard label—interrupting line, layering form and holding tension close to the body.

As the sequence develops, botanical forms and natural marks begin to enter. The clothes move from compression toward release, using growth as something physical: pigment spreading through cloth, petals bruised into fibre, silhouettes opening out.

pressure leaves a mark. growth does too.
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Research

Chaos first. Growth arrives slowly.

The visual language moves from abstraction and pressure toward botanical evidence and a clearer palette.

RESURGENCE: Lost / numbness / overstimulation
02Lost / numbness / overstimulation
RESURGENCE: Chaos, growth and connection
03Chaos, growth and connection
RESURGENCE: Botanical and fibre research
04Botanical and fibre research
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Making

Let nature make part of the mark.

Flower pounding and eco-printing introduce an element the designer cannot completely control. Pressure, moisture and pigment decide the exact edge of the image, so resilience is carried by the process rather than added later as symbolism.

RESURGENCE: Natural-dye and flower studies
06 / Natural-dye and flower studies
RESURGENCE: Flower-pounding experiments
07 / Flower-pounding experiments

Collection development / 04

Read the collection
as a sequence.

Nine-look line-up / the movement from chaos toward growth

RESURGENCE: Nine-look line-up / the movement from chaos toward growth
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Outcome

The collection, resolved without becoming neat.

pressure leaves a mark. growth does too.
RESURGENCE: Final garment photographs
09 / Final garment photographs