Overexposed

Category: Apparel

The collection ״Pale Garden״ explores pallor not only as a physical appearance, but as an emotional experience. Ever since I can remember, being told that I looked pale would trigger anxiety. Through this project, I sought to transform what I once perceived as a weakness into something valuable and desirable. Inspired by the world of gardening, the collection approaches the garden as a metaphor for the human soul, a living landscape that moves through cycles of growth, decline, and renewal. Rather than celebrating nature at its peak, I focus on its quieter, less celebrated moments, revealing a different kind of beauty within fragility and imperfection. The look, titled Overexposed, draws inspiration from overexposed photography, where excessive light gradually erases an image. I became fascinated by the moment when light, instead of revealing, begins to obscure and dissolve details. Through layered silk organza, silk chiffon, silk tulle, crinkled silk, and cotton, the garment becomes a natural photograph of a field slowly erased by light. The transparency, movement, and delicacy of silk soften the silhouette, creating the sensation of an image suspended between presence and disappearance. The look is completed by a bag created from a reclaimed vintage watering can that I found, transforming an everyday gardening object into a sculptural fashion accessory while preserving its symbolic connection to care, watering, and growth. The garment is the result of an extensive material research process and custom textile development. It combines printing, knitting, embroidery, leather craftsmanship, and hand dyeing, with every technique selected not only for its material qualities, but for its ability to communicate emotion. For me, natural materials are never simply a means of construction; they carry memory, movement, fragility, and life, becoming an inseparable part of the story the garment tells.

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