This collection fuses North African heritage with whimsical modernity, balancing intricate silver embellishments and pops of bold colours on ethereal silhouettes. The pieces explore storytelling, traditions, and craft, blending sustainable practices with hand-finished detail. Translating into a collection that feels both intimate and otherworldly — carrying history forward while carving space for new perspectives. The mood of this collection is a reflection on resilience and renewal. There’s an emotional duality running through it: softness and defiance, fragility and endurance. It carries a quiet strength, reflecting on the past and its various renditions, with a slight sense of nostalgia, for a memory that never really existed. The choice of the colour palette — the royal purple, the bold red, classic black and beige, with a touch of shimmering metallics, is meant to echo a sense of resilience and power, it comes from an emotional place rather than a purely aesthetic one. And I wanted the materials — from fluid satin, tulle and soft velvets to chainmail textures, structured taffeta and wool, to echo a tension between delicacy and armour, vulnerability and power. So much of the inspiration for the silhouettes came from Libyan visual history, especially the transitional period after decolonisation and during the monarchy. There’s a real sense of rebirth and identity formation in that era that feels deeply cinematic to me. That combination, traditional references viewed through a lens of 1980s theatricality and surrealism, guided how I reimagined those silhouettes into bold, contemporary statements.