Our decisions were made before our sketch looked decorative. That’s the difference between authorship and borrowed aesthetics.
Kind regards ✨️
Liam Geeraerts
Apophis & Co. TM
Est.2020
Creation • Lifestyle • Art
Bastet Judgement vs Regina Nilī • Plumage Imperium:
This is what people think they’re doing when they claim design variation or post beautiful but physically impossible gowns vs what actually happens when you understand construction, tension and the reality of building garments
If you can’t answer where the garment anchors
how gravity is being managed and how tension flows through your pieces then you’re not designing but you’re outsourcing the problem to whoever has to build it. Same system, different outcomes.
Bastet judgement: designed, but constructed. A study in controlled tension, layered systems and symbolic architecture. Where compression defines the body, structure negotiates gravity, and articulation shapes movement.
The corset acts as an exoskeleton.
I was thaught that building couture doesn’t start with a silhouette, a mood or vibes but starts with the system that holds the garment together.
Structure always comes first. Everything else on the garment is a consequence of that structure.