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Headpieces

Fashion Experiments

Role
Concept · Art direction · Illustration

Project
Headpieces for the Subconscious Minds

Project type
Art prints · NFTs

Year
2025

Context
This project explores headpieces as symbolic extensions of identity — objects where fashion, Surrealism, and the subconscious intersect. Historically, hats have functioned as tools of self-definition, particularly for women, enabling individuality, social signalling, and quiet subversion. Here, they are reimagined as psychological artefacts rather than accessories.

Concept
Across eight illustrated studies, I investigated dream logic, distortion, and material ambiguity. Unconventional forms, textures, and colour states transform each headpiece into an otherworldly construct — less fashion object, more state of mind. Each piece is designed to feel emotionally charged, slightly unsettling, and deliberately symbolic, inviting the viewer into an inner landscape rather than a style narrative.

Availability
Selected works from the series are available as collectible pieces on ANASAEA and via Saatchi Art. Licensing available on request.

Atmospheric Mind — A volumetric headpiece shaped to convey emotional distance and clarity, transforming softness and expansion into a spatial metaphor for calm, detachment, and contemplation.
The model wears a voluminous ice-blue shoulder wrap with a soft, cloud-like surface, enveloping the upper torso and rising around the neck. The piece could be realised using densely layered pineapple-leaf fibre, recycled cellulose yarns and a lightweight plant-based textile backing, creating the appearance of an exceptionally soft, almost feather-like surface without using animal materials. A narrow turquoise-blue collar sits close around the neck, giving the otherwise expansive silhouette a precise architectural edge.
Echo Chamber — A resonant headpiece designed to visualise internal reflection, using layered curvature and density to suggest thought looping, memory retention, and introspection.
The model wears a sculptural copper-toned shoulder piece composed of numerous fine, elongated elements radiating outwards from the neckline, creating a layered, resonant texture around the upper body. This could be interpreted as mango-skin biocomposite strips, fine recycled cellulose fibres and delicate recycled metallic filaments, with a subtle copper finish. Beneath it, a smooth black high-neck garment creates a clean, dark foundation, while a narrow metallic copper band follows the base of the neck and connects visually with the headpiece.
Bloom State — A botanical-inspired construct where fashion adopts organic logic, suggesting growth, protection, and renewal.
The model wears a fitted emerald-green high-collar top with a smooth, highly reflective surface and a concealed central zip running vertically from the neck down the torso. The material could be conceived as a cactus-based bio-material with a polished satin finish, giving the garment its sleek, almost liquid appearance. The sharply raised collar frames the neck and creates a continuous visual transition between the body and the botanical green headpiece, while the precise tailoring keeps the silhouette clean and almost sculptural.
Cognitive Halo — A headpiece structured as a mental amplifier, where concentric textures and radiating mass evoke heightened perception, intensity, and sensory overload.
The model wears a minimalist ivory halter top with a smooth, softly luminous surface, leaving the shoulders and upper arms exposed. Around the neckline is an exaggerated arrangement of elongated pointed shapes, forming a botanical collar that spreads across the upper chest. The garment could be made from recycled cellulose satin or a plant-based stretch textile, with a subtle matte sheen that contrasts with the intensely textured orange headpiece. The clean, fitted construction allows the radial structure around the head to remain the dominant visual element.
Fragile Monument — A headpiece built around exaggerated softness and scale, where delicacy becomes structural, proposing vulnerability as a deliberate and commanding psychological stance.
The model wears an asymmetrical powder-pink shoulder piece that sweeps dramatically across the upper torso, composed of numerous elongated, finely textured elements arranged in a fan-like formation. A second rounded pink volume appears at the lower edge of the crop, creating a strong contrast between the delicate linear structure and a denser, softer surface. These elements could be interpreted through recycled cellulose fibres, pineapple-leaf yarn and plant-based bio-felt, all in graduated blush and powder-pink tones. The exposed shoulder and asymmetrical construction give the piece an intentionally fragile yet commanding presence.
Pressure Shell — A compressed headpiece form expressing containment and intensity, using closed volume and texture to suggest suppressed emotion, internal tension, and controlled force.
The model wears a sharply structured, high-collared red jacket with a glossy surface and exaggerated pointed collar. The material could be conceived as pineapple-leaf leather or a cactus-based bio-material, finished with a high-gloss plant-derived coating to achieve the almost lacquered appearance visible in the photograph. The front is clean and architectural, with layered lapel-like panels creating a protective shell around the neck and upper chest, while the strong red surface gives the garment an almost armour-like quality.
Signal Crown — A sculptural headpiece conceived as a visual alert system, where exaggerated volume and radial elements transform the head into a focal point of intention, authority, and psychological presence.
The model wears a vivid yellow sleeveless utility-style top with a high standing collar, structured shoulders and a central fastening. The garment features contrasting pale reflective piping around the armholes, collar and horizontal chest detail, together with visible functional-looking straps and hardware. It could be constructed from coated recycled cellulose, pineapple-leaf fibre and plant-based technical textiles, combining a smooth engineered surface with more tactile structural elements. The fitted construction and utilitarian detailing give the piece a futuristic uniform quality that reinforces the headpiece's sense of authority and visual signalling.
Dominion Arc — A ceremonial headpiece constructed as a symbol of inner authority, where metallic surfaces and sweeping geometry articulate power, control, and elevated self-perception.
The model wears a sculptural strapless gold bodice with a highly reflective, finely textured surface, its curved construction following the bust before narrowing towards the waist. Matching sculptural panels rise slightly at the sides, creating a subtle architectural extension of the torso, while a broad gold choker encircles the neck and oversized textured gold earrings complete the visible look. The ensemble could be realised using bio-based metallic textile, recycled metallic mesh and plant-resin structural elements, creating the appearance of hammered or finely perforated metal while remaining entirely free from animal-derived materials. The result sits somewhere between couture, jewellery and wearable sculpture.
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