Obsidian · 2026

Dubai Fashion Week

Volcanic glass cools too fast to become crystal. Obsidian takes that edge, no one designed and no one softened, and builds four looks around it: dark, still, structural before it is beautiful.

CollectionObsidian
ShownDubai Fashion Week, October 2026
LooksFour
RoleDesign, illustration, print, technical

The looks

Boards

Mood board
Mood board
Colour board
Colour board
Fabric board
Fabric board
Trim board
Trim board
Print board
Print board

Concept notes

Volcanic glass cools too fast to become crystal. It skips the lattice, the ordered growth, the slow arrangement of parts, and sets as it is. What remains is entirely natural and breaks like something engineered.

A fern grew in the dark with no intention of being looked at, and came out machined. A spring and a plant stem, laid on the same paper, confess to the same chemistry.

Coil, spiral, branch: forms that organise a plant from the inside, lifted out of the research and set on the body. Nothing here is applied. Everything here is load-bearing.

A brass grid repeats without mercy; inside each cell, a mark that never repeats. This is a palette that refuses colour and finds range anyway.

The portfolio

Read the full book: research, boards, development and every look.