ACCEPTANCE LETTER

This body of work is dedicated to those who are gone, yet whose presence lingers in the spaces they once inhabited. Delving into the memorial narrative introduced in Spring/Summer 2025, this season shifts from grief to something else: the processes of healing, remembering and shaping the future through love and memory.

We often confine our memories within places, cities, rooms, train stations and bustling streets. Here, garments act as vessels that carry those memories, their presence, emotions and stories. By reusing and reimagining the same core pieces into new shapes, the collection ponders how memory can transform into creation and how holding on can also mean moving forward with intention, care and optimism.

This is how I engage in a conversation between the past and the present, between things gone and things to come. It is a dialogue with absence or a sustained act of remembrance.

It conveys a gentle truth as well: You are here with me.