Nature serves as a central motif in my practice, with its balance of symmetry and chaos offering a source of endless variation and creative freedom. While many of my works take shape as three-dimensional forms, I also translate these themes into weaving, dyeing, and printing, using colour, texture, and design to evoke earthly visuals. Designers who have played a role in my approach to fashion include Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Eiko Ishioka . While their styles may present as vastly different, they all redefine fashion through historical reference, theatricality and rebellion. Research into the history of fashion through social, political, and environmental lenses guides not only my aesthetics but also my material choices. I prioritize recycled, found, and locally sourced natural materials as a way to confront the textile medium’s ties to exploitative and harmful systems of production. In this way, my practice reflects both admiration for the historical and natural worlds and commitment to sustainable and accountable methods of making.