Description
This piece begins with the blazer, dismantling its once-intact, formal silhouette and redrawing the lines of lingerie as an exoskeleton.
A blazer faces the outside world, while lingerie lies closest to the body. These two garments, traditionally separated into outer and inner layers, are reconstructed into a single silhouette, transforming the intimate structure of lingerie into an outward-facing form.
The shoulders retain a blazer’s expansive volume, but their surface is no longer intact.
Vertical cut-outs and exposed lines create a skeletal form, connecting to the fine, distressed mesh below. From a distance, the broad shoulders convey strength; up close, their openings reveal a sense of fragility. These seemingly opposing qualities coexist within the same shoulder structure.
Across the front, collar panels, pointed edges and mesh sections intersect, converging at the metal clasp on the chest. The eye moves from the outward-spreading shoulders towards the centre of the garment, contrasting the breadth of the shoulders with a sense of inward tension. The way lingerie envelops and draws around the body is no longer hidden beneath the blazer, but expressed through visible lines on its exterior.
Lace is more than decoration applied to the surface. It emerges along openings and panel edges, set against frayed edges, mesh textures and more substantial suiting panels. The garment retains a sense of having been taken apart and not yet fully put in order. Details that would ordinarily be tucked away inside become the very elements brought into focus.
The back is equally integral to the design.
Crossing narrow straps, semi-sheer panels and cut-outs open up the blazer’s traditionally closed back. Below, separate elongated panels extend downwards, preserving the vertical lines of tailoring while breaking away from its fully enclosing form. The body appears and disappears through different openings, allowing sensuality to emerge from the relationship between concealment and revelation, rather than simply from how much skin is exposed.
The all-black palette draws attention back to the construction itself: the varying thicknesses of the panels, layers of transparency, the delicacy of lace and the stretched-open appearance of the mesh. Even without contrasting colours, the garment holds contrasts between formality and intimacy, completeness and disruption, strength and softness.
This is the femininity BOUDOIR seeks to express—a defined shoulder line and distinct silhouette that also retain the softness and sensuality of something worn close to the body. It looks like armour, yet a closer look reveals details that once belonged only in the boudoir.
Lingerie is no longer simply the layer worn beneath a blazer. It redefines the blazer’s structure.