What if the Old Masters designed sportswear? While taking part in the Recraft contest, I started thinking about how to mix classical painting with modern brands. I experimented with 18th–19th-century oil painting aesthetics and thought: why not take this idea further and create an entire sportswear brand around it? Classic art, modern athletes, contemporary fashion. A little unexpected? Maybe. But that's what makes it fun! So, I created a sportswear brand concept that brings these two worlds together. The result is right below 👇

Recraft project: https://www.recraft.ai/project/ae17a521-566c-457e-9482-d4b94157111f

Recraft Style: https://www.recraft.ai/styles/ad18be45-ba13-4470-87d4-304caf063f96

Social posts: LinkedIn / X

Archive references:

https://art.thewalters.org/object/37.2392/

https://art.thewalters.org/object/37.887/

https://art.thewalters.org/object/37.9/

Sick art direction

Usbong is Tagalog for "bud," the moment a flower first breaks open. I dug into Flora de Filipinas (1877–1883), a 19th-century botanical atlas of Philippine plants, through the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikimedia Commons. I turned its hand-colored plates into a fictional women's football club. Every native flower became gear: Dapdap → home kit Banaba → away kit Caballero → boots Santan + gumamela → goalkeeper gloves Sanggumay → match ball Makahiya → the supporter's scarf Makahiya is the "shy" plant, the one that folds when you touch it. It's also covered in thorns, and that's the whole idea: these flowers aren't soft or decorative. They bite. Worn by striker Maya Flores, #29, the collection reclaims flowers as fierce, not fragile.

Bella, this is sooo cool!!!