Butterfly · A Drifting Reverie

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. Though a fairy tale, it brims with poetic symbolism, particularly its vivid imagery of an icy realm. Snowflakes are personified, and the crystalline palace gleams like a dream, with the frozen tundra portrayed as both perilous and enchanting. Gerda’s journey represents love’s trials and triumphs. The design reflects the purity and chill of snow through white sheer mesh, with embroidery mimicking the soft curves of snowdrop flowers. High-waist details evoke Kai’s state of entrapment, while openwork suggests freedom and rebirth.

O.V. Wright’s Ace of Spades provides the muse. The sultry tones of Wright’s voice unveil the sensual undertones of blues. The spade motif is intricately embroidered, and sharp waistline cuts hint at the balance between control and danger—a tribute to the gamble of love and fate.

Inspired by Gustav Klimt’s The Garden, where flowers scatter across the canvas like twilight’s fleeting glow. The design reimagines the interplay of petal hues and glimmers of light through curving cutouts and gradient embroidery, capturing the fragility of nature and the elegance of time’s passage.

Inspired by Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), a film that unfolds like an endless lucid dream, where past, present, fiction, and reality intertwine. Repeated dialogues, cyclical scenes, and ambiguous relationships evoke a surreal reverie. Flowing mesh mimics the play of light and shadow, while lace edging outlines complex psychological landscapes, embodying the coexistence of past and present, like stepping into an indescribable daylight phantasm.

Resilience hides its sharpness, tranquility nurtures strength; a crimson whisper, a murmur of self.

Inspired by two literary works: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence. The ethereal entanglements of Oberon and Titania mirror the interplay of dream and reality, while Mayle’s Provençal summer nights, brimming with cicadas and the aroma of wine, add a southern French allure. The design captures the lightness of fairies flitting through forests with flowing, airy fabrics like morning mist. Lavender hues and subtle gold embroidery evoke Provençal fields and the shimmering twilight of midsummer dreams.