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Where the Walls Forget is a collection that arose from the delicate connection between memory and physicality,touching on how locations, clothing, people, and moments contain traces of our former selves yet ultimately fade. It addresses the kind of nostalgia that resides in the soul as opposed to the material world and echoes in the quiet areas of the mind where time seems to stand still.

The collection reimagines women’s silhouettes from the 1800s through a modern perspective, drawing on senti- mentalism and human connection. The repetition of broad hips and hourglass curves works as both homage and a distortion, alluding to how our memory of certain things gets distorted as time passes. The consequent outcome is garments that, like a dream you just vaguely recall, feel both familiar and alien. The textile contrasts are essential; the contradiction between permanency and deterioration is portrayed by the combination of precise tailoring and flowy, soft fabrics. The looks are meant to evoke the beauty of aging residences, the lingering reminder of a former self, and the pointlessness of trying to hold onto things that are destined to fade away.

At last, Where the Walls Forget is a reflection on transience and how beauty is found not in preservation, but in the inevitable acceptance of impermanence.