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The Morisset Archive is an experimental fashion collection exploring the intersection of historical craftsmanship and contemporary luxury, built using Recraft V4. The collection’s design language bridges two rare museum artifacts housed at The Met:
The Smallsword Hilt and Scabbard Mounts by James Morisset (1797–98): Translating intricate goldsmith details, hardware, and nautical motifs into refined accessories and structural trims.
Elements of an Italian Light-Cavalry Armor alla Tedesca (Milan, ca. 1510): Adapting the iconic fluted steel geometry, etched surface patterns, and protective elegance of Renaissance armor into modern high-steel couture tailoring.
Through meticulous prompt engineering, custom style generation, and art direction, this project transforms forgotten archival hardware and 16th-century steel into a cohesive, photorealistic fashion editorial and digital asset catalog system.
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PLIQUE · LIBELLULE
I went through the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access collection and picked four artworks from 1900 to 1920. I took their colours and details to design PLIQUE, an imaginary Paris fashion house. LIBELLULE means dragonfly in French.
What I took from each:
Lalique's dragonfly brooch → the see-through wings and frosted glass
Tiffany Studios velvet → the deep greens and soft textures
Gallé's glass vase → the leaves, the flowers and the warm amber glow
Redon's flower painting → the purple and plum
Lalique made a dragonfly small enough to pin on a collar. I turned it into clothes, shoes and bags.
Made in Recraft, with one Style built from these four artworks.
ARTWORKS
CANTIN | You know our coffee. Meet the neighbors.
I found John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838) on Wikimedia Commons and in the National Gallery of Art's open collection, hand-coloured engravings where every bird is drawn life-size on the plant it lives on. I cropped seven public-domain plates, without captions or plate numbers, and trained a Recraft V4 Style on them that I called Audubon Aves do Brasil. Audubon never painted Brazil, so I used his way of drawing on Brazilian birds that live around our coffee farms. To tie it together I created CANTIN, an invented Brazilian coffee brand with the campaign line "You know our coffee. Now meet the neighbors." That brand is the twist, since his plates now sell a 2026 coffee on the poster, the campaign seal, the labels, the tins and the kraft bags.
How the neighbors were made, in 30 seconds.
Tales of Mystery & Notification 🕯️🔴
What if Harry Clarke had illustrated our nightmares? In 1919 he drew Edgar Allan Poe's. I asked him to draw ours.
I went digging through the Public Domain Image Archive and found Clarke's 1919 plates for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: black-and-white ink by a Dublin stained-glass artist, all long pale fingers and dread. I trained ten of them into a Recraft style, Clarke Ink 1919.
Then I retold ten of Poe's tales as the horrors of the smartphone age. Each plate sits beside Clarke's original, and each caption is his own line with one word swapped: "the heart beat on with a muffled sound" became "the phone buzzed on". A man is buried alive in his inbox. The masked guest is a 99+ badge.
The only colour in the whole book is the red notification dot. The film ends inside Recraft, showing how it was made.
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Happy Halloween. The style is public, so try it yourself 👇
This is an example of how simple art can be turned into films.
Everything is so refined and polished. I genuinely wanna know how did you come up with this?