↳ Process / finished
COBRA PVC — ESTUDO DE MATERIAL
Snakeskin in plastic. A study of the material itself — which yielded a balloon skirt and a blazer before deciding what comes next.
The Gesture
I have a snakeskin in the atelier that was never on a snake: thermoplastic PVC with blue scales, vinyl shine, plastic memory. Before deciding what to make with it, I did what should always be done — study the material itself. How it folds, how it reflects, where it yields and where it digs in. A material like this doesn’t behave like fabric: it doesn’t breathe, it doesn’t forgive the needle, and every crease stays there forever, telling on the mistake.
The Intervention
The study produced two answers. A classic blazer in semi-transparent PVC, its edges tamed by black polyester bias binding — tailoring’s structure holding down a material that only wants to be spectacle. And a high-waisted balloon skirt in opaque PVC, sewn with thick white thread in plain sight, where volume does the work the fibre doesn’t know how to do. The classic cut against the loud material: that’s where the conversation gets interesting.
Status
This was a study, and it is the result of a study — part of the process, not a destination. The material is on the table, tested and understood, ready to become anything. What will be born from it is still open. And that’s exactly how it should be.
