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!!!

Momoyogusa SS27: A 1909 Pattern Book Art-Directs a 2027 Capsule In 1909, Kyoto designer Kamisaka Sekka published Momoyogusa ("A World of Things"), three volumes of woodblock-printed patterns so flat and graphic they still look modern a century later. I trained a Recraft V4 Style on eight plates from the Cleveland Museum of Art's public-domain copy, keeping Sekka's flat colour fields, metallic accents and empty paper grounds. Then I handed him a 2027 brief: a streetwear capsule. His winter river became a quilted puffer, his cranes climbed onto chunky trainers, his peonies bloomed on headphones, and his dancers came back in matching tracksuits. A pattern book from 1909, working as a fashion house's design studio.

So clean and aesthetic!