Spawned from the question “What if?”. What if, instead of perceiving our deepest sources of pain and insecurity as impetus for shame or unworthiness, we treated them as valuable treasures — the most beautiful aspects of our being? What if we could exonerate our most guarded imperfections from judgement and transform the wounds of self-loathing into jewels of self-celebration and power? What if we could shift the resultant perspective of crippling trauma from broken, fractured and depleted to an energetic spinal tap of vitality, strength and resplendence?

The following editions were part of a longlisted submission to VILLA NOAILLES — HYERES 35TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL INTL. DE MODE, DE PHOTOGRAPHIE ET D’ACCESSOIRES DE MODE.

Each piece of armour bears reverence for the world that birthed its composition — the silt and clay that preceded ceramic, the quarries and roughened caves that mined polished stone, the pits and jagged striations that revealed threads of ore, gold and silver, and the tanned skins, pearlescent jewels and sun bleached bones — all mana of our beautiful existence.