The focal inspiration for the “Trails” collection was the trash punk aesthetic. As evident, the shapes represented in the collection’s pieces draw on inspiration from various elements that can be found on a highway.

These include tire trails which resonate with the collection’s title, but also delicate elements such as flowers as well as more eerie elements such as roadkills. The “Trails” collection is compiled from zero-waste materials which were obtained in an organic way (i.e., borrowed or found) rather than purchased. Regarding the collection’s conceptualization, as insinuated above, the pieces stand to represent tire trails, but also human body trails or traces. In both cases, these trails were imposed on the subject by a foreign object. In the case of a highway the foreign object might have been a vehicle such as a car or a truck. On the other hand, in the case of humans, the foreign object might be an actual object imposing trauma on the body such as a knife cutting the flesh.

Alternatively, it could be a psychological trail imposed by a loved one due to an emotionally unpleasant event such as a break up, betrayal or loss. Furthermore, the utilization of the color black stands to represent truck tires, while the utilization of orange represents human trails, as mentioned above, such as skin wounds.

The collection “Trails” is a pret a porter (i.e., mid-season) collection.