RURAL TRACE

This collection examines how labor and daily life merge in rural contexts, where work is lived rather than scheduled. Clothing becomes a material record of movement, repetition, and endurance. By bringing rural workwear silhouettes to the runway, the collection confronts fashion’s habit of aestheticizing garments while erasing the labor that shapes them. Inspired by Rei Kawakubo’s body deformation approach, the silhouettes highlight how work physically molds the body. Here, clothing is not trend, it is memory and lived presence.