Bodies of Armor

Side view of structured coat, paired with a sculptural full-length felt pleated godet skirt. The look is like a quiet armor rising from the shoulders, holding the world at a distance. The body recedes beneath, concealed yet present. Movement reveals what is hidden, where protection lives in the tension of what is withheld.

Structured jacket with contrast lining, paired with a sculptural felt pleated godet skirt.

Side view of structured coat, paired with a sculptural full-length felt pleated godet skirt, black and white. The look of the jacket is like a quiet armor rising from the shoulders, holding the world at a distance. The body recedes beneath, concealed yet present.

Structured jacket with contrast lining, paired with a sculptural felt pleated godet skirt.

Seated model in the jacket and skirt ensemble, emphasizing how the jacket serves as armor, rising from the shoulders, holding the world at a distance, partially hiding the model's head. The body recedes beneath, concealed yet present within the skirts voluminous, long layers. Protection lives in the tension of what is withheld.

Structured jacket with contrast lining, paired with a sculptural felt pleated godet skirt.

Side view of model in a full-length black sleeveless gown with train. Worn over the gown is sculptural metal framework, creating a protective spatial cage, tracing an unseen boundary. The structure hovers between enclosure and openness, neither fully containing nor releasing. As the body moves, the lines shift, mapping a shifting perimeter of protection. The garment beneath remains grounded and still, anchoring the form while the framework expands outward.

Sculptural metal framework over elongated black form, creating a protective spatial cage.

Leather cowhide skirt with elongated panels. Paint veils the body in a softened, shifting surface.

Bodies of Armor approaches protection as ceremony, an embodied ritual shaped through restraint, the void, and quiet control. Both physical and metaphysical, the body extends beyond itself, generating a perimeter of tension and distance, a field of held presence. Protection becomes sacred, the body cloaked, cocooned, and carried across thresholds of becoming, where what is withheld holds as much power as what is formed.

Credits

Photographer: Gia Huy Duong
Model: Kendal, Pearl

Adeline Hawley

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