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N.002 · June 2026

From Drawing to Garment

Everything we make starts on paper. Graphite first, then ink — no screens, no shortcuts. If a drawing doesn't hold up on a wall, it doesn't deserve to be on a body.

A drawing spends weeks as just a drawing. We live with it. Most don't survive that stage. The ones that do get translated — not resized, translated — for fabric: line weights rebuilt for print, textures re-cut for thread, compositions re-balanced for the way cloth moves.

The garments themselves are built heavy on purpose. Weight is part of the language. You should feel what you're carrying.

The full process — fabric, construction, print — will be shown as Chapter I approaches. For now, the paper comes first. It always will.