tones.
We love to study their shapes and colours, silently admiring these little pieces of treasures.
It is our unspoken language of stones.

Despite the challenges Ilaria faces, she has always been very particular with what she wears and has an intuitive way of mixing promotions and textures.

Through my collection I have tried to capture both the beauty of the stones we collected together, and the pure, sensitive spirit of Ilaria.


This collection was developed as a co-creation with her and my aim was to find 
a common language, which other people could understand and relate to, to tell her story.
A story about sensitivity, connection and unconditional love, but also about other forms of normality.


The entire collection has been done in knitwear, as a technique which adapts to varying body types and wool as the main material which, in connection with the shapes of my collection, created a comforting cocoon around the person wearing it. 
The surface of my knits have been developed to translate the surface of the stones we collected together, to provide a haptically stimulation as well as relaxation and functions as a connection with others through touch. 

This project has been important to raise awareness in an industry which mainly focuses on perfection, to give Ilarias perspective a voice, which can be heard by many.