Speculative Couture: Wearables from Other Realms
What happens when fashion evolves beyond fabric, into living systems and speculative anatomies? Speculative Couture collects a series of wearable futures β accessories, headpieces, and body designs that seem grown as much as crafted.
These pieces blur the boundary between high fashion and biodesign, suggesting accessories that are alive with organic logics: handbags pulsing like organisms, nails crystallising into coral growths, eyewear fusing into alien exoskeletons. Each object feels less like an accessory and more like a parasite, symbiont, or second skin.
Wearables as Specimens
Each accessory reads like a field specimen translated into couture. A handbag sprouts ocular textures, carrying more eyes than belongings. Nails extend into clustered growths, shimmering with crystalline bacteria. Headpieces emerge like exoskeletal extensions, reframing the face in alien architectures. Even simple portraits transform into documentation of futures where ornament and organism are indistinguishable.
Photography here functions as a catalogue of alternate anatomies: fashion portraiture colliding with speculative taxonomy.
