Fragments of Future Hope

Three-piece grey and black dramatic ensemble featuring a wool long-sleeve wool and silk peplum top and shiny silk skirt with fishtail train. The silhouette highlights sharp angular lines and contrasting fabrics.

Three-piece ensemble highlighting sharp points, a striking silhouette, and contrasting fabrics.

Frontal view of a model wearing a full-length gray ensemble. She wears a fitted wool top with long sleek shiny silk sleeves and chain detailing across the center of bodice. Top is paired with a shiny long silk skirt, featuring a wavy hem that skims the floor.

Frontal view, showcasing the chain detailing on the fitted top along with the pronounced skirt hem.

Close-up of gray wool dress bodice, featuring prominent gunmetal chains individually hand-sewn across the deeply plunging neckline of the gray silk wool tweed bodice.

Prominent gunmetal chains, individually hand-sewn through gray silk wool tweed and facing.

Model in a distinct crouched pose, showing the gray wool and silk ensemble from the back. The pose accentuates the pointed wool peplum, the sleek shiny long sleeves, and the black georgette skirt with pleated and pointed panels and fishtail train.

Distinct pose accentuating the black georgette pleated and pointed panels of the skirt.

Full-length back view of model on a flight of stairs. The pose highlights the ensemble's dramatic silhouette and the alignment of the garments' seams and points, from the top, to the black silk wool peplum, to the long shiny dark-colored silk skirt.

Back view displaying the alignment of the top, black silk wool pointed peplum, and skirt seam.

While battling an extremely debilitating and terrifying muscle disease, I dreamed of a healthier version of myself coming to comfort me—a version of myself I thought was forever left in the past. Little did I know, I was looking at myself from the future, from today. My senior thesis collection encapsulates the hopefulness and creativity—at times dwindling, yet still present—I would turn to during this very dark time, and the beautiful full-circle moment I didn't realize was waiting for me.