I wanted the garment to function as actual technology — not symbolic, not decorative, but engineered for the specific labor of managing overflow. The gradient from saturated to clean tells the story of her day without a word. The Orok fish-skin meets Piedmontese hazelnut country in that sash: two cultures that understood preservation as survival, meeting in a woman whose problem is the opposite. That wry look matters — she's not suffering, she's coping brilliantly, and there's dark comedy in inheriting too much. — Lux