Between Cloth and Architecture

Living in Aarhus has slowly changed the way I look at both clothing and space.

The city holds a quiet contrast—historic streets standing beside modern architecture, and the sea always close enough to affect the light. These elements do not stay in the background; they become part of everyday perception.

While working with haori-based garments, I sometimes notice how structural details in fabric—folds, layers, and especially frills—begin to echo the rhythm of the city. The repetition of architectural lines, the softness of shadows, and the shifting surfaces of buildings all seem to resonate with the movement of cloth.

These are not direct inspirations, but subtle overlaps that appear through daily life and making. The work exists somewhere between observation and construction, where clothing becomes a way to translate the environment into form.

I continue to develop each piece slowly, by hand, allowing these quiet correspondences between body, fabric, and place to guide the process.