The Crypt

The Crypt is a collection inspired by the beauty of survival.

Drawing from Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, the collection reflects on the trauma imposed upon them, in life and in death, and the echoes of those experiences in the lives of women today.

Like the crypts that weather time, sacred spaces built to protect, later neglected and left to erode, so too are the stories of generations of women sealed away, suppressed, or forgotten.

The Crypt does not dwell in burial.
It dwells in preservation.

This collection protects what has been silenced and reclaims it through form.

Constructed upon masculine ruins, it deconstructs men’s tailoring through a female lens. Exposed petticoats and restrained lace reveal what was once meant to remain hidden. Victorian silhouettes are structurally reinterpreted, not as relics, but as monuments.

Here, tailoring becomes architecture.
Lace becomes memory.
Layering becomes protection.

The Crypt is not about decay; it is about endurance.
A study in the quiet monumentality of survival.