The Language of Texture

En Garde, 2025. White charcoal and pan pastel on heavyweight paper.

I wanted to understand what it feels like to inhabit these pieces together, to sense their weight and temperature together. The drawing combines a faux fur and leather plastron by Sandrine Philippe with a textured knit by Seria Numerica. Together, they create an architecture of contrast — protection and ease, structure and softness.

Before drawing, I wore them. I wanted to know how they hold the body, the firmness of leather across the chest, the brushed edge of faux fur at the throat, the knit loosening into motion. It’s one thing to look at a form; it’s another to feel it on your skin.

I’ve come to believe the right garment can change your life. Not because it’s beautiful (though that matters too), but because it changes how you move through space. How you inhabit yourself. What you wear can rewire your posture, your rhythm, your relationship to fucking air.

And when I drew it, it wasn’t about getting it right. It never is. It was about tracing that feeling, that tiny shift when design becomes emotion.