What would you do to keep someone with you forever?

This collection turns garments into spaces where love and grief physically merge—where the skin of the living collides with the memory of the dead. Inspired by The Proof of the Gu, the story explores the romantic gesture of a woman who consumes her lover’s body after his death—not to destroy, but to preserve. In her story, there is a metaphor for a deeply felt desire: to absorb grief so completely that it no longer wounds, but becomes part of the self. A part that can be lived with, and grown with.

The most profound expressions of love are not always romantic or gentle. Sometimes, they are painful. Sometimes, they require a change of form.

This work suggests a way to wear loss, and still move forward.

What if grief had a shape?
What if love could live on—not in memory, but in the body?

Each piece carries experiences with death—personal, layered, and unresolved. From the trauma of witnessing death in childhood, to the quiet griefs that followed into adulthood, there was little time to dissolve each and every loss. Felting, dyeing, embroidery—these are not just techniques, but rituals. Through them, grief becomes visible. Tangible. Wearable.

Everyone carries someone they’ve lost.
When grief has no place to go, it finds a body to live in.
These garments invite reflection on what happens when letting go is not an option—and transformation becomes a choice.

Because in the end, what remains might still be alive in us.