For Fall / Winter 2025, Chorus draws from the deep well of craft tradition, but tilts the lens ever-so-slightly, offer-ing garments that disorient in elegant ways. Proportions shift, surfaces surprise, and silhouettes carry echoes of something once known, now reimagined. Floral forms recur throughout the collection, embroidered, sculpted, or only implied in the fabric. These are not garden-variety blooms, but fantastical species imagined in some other realm – flowers with too many petals, leaves with memory. They emerge unexpectedly: blooming from shoulders, rippling across hems, or fracturing into delicate interconnected lace.

The silhouettes respond to the body, inviting the wearer into a world slightly askew, where beauty lies in alternate possibilities. Colour, too, plays a subtle game of contrast. There are calm sky blues and fertile greens, bitter marigold yellows and petal whites. Deep indigo is energised with sparks of chartreuse, and there are hints of peony-pink and torch ginger red peeking through the lineup. The combinations are sometimes unexpected, yet appear harmonious and deliberate, adding another layer of gentle disorientation. In effect, the colours further the collection’s narrative of optimism in otherness, ensuring that even in the dark of winter, light and life persist.

Hand-painted and sculpted flowers are layered with micro beads, forming delicate botanical compositions. 3D crystal brooches are composed into wearable bouquets. In some places, lace is engineered into structural patterns to form a jewelled topography. Elsewhere, rickrack lace acts as a foundation, guiding the precise placement of embellishments like micro-sequins and miniature floral appliqué. The threads are irregular, giving the impression that the textures themselves are thinking and breathing. In tandem with these floral embellishments, the shapes of the garments are curious and slightly off-kilter in the most intentional way. Each design is a site of experimentation, informed by the instinct of the hand and a quiet sense of play. Sleeves fold inward unexpectedly, and collars act like a tender orbit wrapping around the neck.