a conceptual menswear collection that reimagines space through 3D structural development. Using creative pattern cutting, each piece draws from architectural frameworks and traditional tribal forms. The silhouette emerges from voids empty spaces that define both structure and function.
The project brings together architectural frameworks and traditional structured tribal wear to develop a technical menswear collection. It explores the void as the space between the body and the garment not as absence, but as a controlled and functional element.
The silhouettes are built through this space. Storage, movement, and proportion are resolved within the structure itself, rather than applied onto the surface.
The work is built on two parallel studies- architecture and traditional tribal wear.
Architectural frameworks are analysed to understand how form holds itself through curvature, arches, and structural pattern logic, defining the approach to three-dimensional pattern cutting.
Tribal wear informs the use of space around the body, where voids are functional, shaping storage and movement. The design is an extra layer on the body which changes the identity.
The silhouette is developed through these two systems structure and space working together.
The designs demanded a fully three-dimensional structure. no existing pattern process could resolve them. A new method was developed from the ground up.
Miniature avatars 3D printed at 1/7th human scale formed the base. Voids were sculpted directly onto these forms before any pattern work began. Once set, taped in layers to create a rigid surface allowing panels to be extracted accurately.
Light was used to study the curvature of each form identifying where surfaces flatten, marking the transition from three-dimensional structure to two-dimensional pattern.
Extracted panels were scanned, converted into garment patterns in CLO 3D, and scaled to human proportion (x7 times).
Tested digitally and then physically constructed.
Please see below the detailed process documented.
See Project Voids in Detail
details & Finishes
The materials demanded by the collection were unnatural to conventional garment construction. Creating three-dimensional form from them required developing techniques specific to each one.
Fusing, heat pressing, and reinforcements were used where structure needed to be held without stitching. Some materials allowed no seam at all details and storage elements could only be fused directly onto the surface. Others, like leather, required precision stitching and specialist techniques to navigate the complex curves running through every panel.
The process expanded into laser cutting for precision in materials where conventional cutting would compromise the edge or the form. Each challenge produced a new technique. Each technique became part of the construction language of the collection.
Leather Story
Leather anchors the collection. Its weight grounds the silhouette its structure echoes the logic of the voids.
Sourced for durability and surface integrity, the leather forms the backbone of the key pieces. Each panel is laser-cut for precision the curves too complex and too considered to be resolved by hand.
Panels are bonded rather than stitched where the construction demands it, ensuring the garment holds its form while remaining responsive to the body's movement.
The tension between rigidity and movement is not incidental. It is the point.