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Khanjar from the house of
"Darbar-e-zar"
(the court of gold)
I found an 18th-century Mughal jade and gold khanjar (dagger) in the MET MUSEUM, and was drawn to its emerald color, velvet tones, gold engravings, and set gemstones. I turned these details into one palette and ornament language: emerald green, velvet brown, antique gold, and ruby and diamond accents. From it, I built a men’s collection of wearable pieces, including a jewelled velvet shirt with gold embroidery, sneakers, and a ring, presented like a real fashion campaign. The aim is to bring Indian craftsmanship back into everyday menswear, where sweats and stretchy basics have replaced dressing up. The whole series was generated with a custom Recraft.ai Style built from the dagger, so anyone can try it.
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i went back to the late 1890 and earliest 19th century, and choose to work with a beautiful painting called; Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth by the artist; Martin Johnson Heade.
it definitely deserved a comeback, so i turned it into a Recraft Style, and use it to draw things Martin would never have imagined, like modern fashion wears, techs and appliances.
there's alot in my recraft project, check it out through the link.
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LUDUS MAGNUS — Modern Life, Unearthed
What would remain of our everyday lives if someone unearthed them centuries from now?
Inspired by the Getty Museum’s Statue of an Athlete, LUDUS MAGNUS imagines a museum of our present: ten classical marble sculptures preserving the ways we play, move, escape, connect and dream.
A basketball player hangs forever before the shot; a breakdancer balances upside down beside a stone boombox; a woman raises her phone to capture a moment that has already outlived her.
Built around a custom Recraft Style drawn from the archive sculpture’s pale marble, weathered surfaces, irregular fractures and quiet museum lighting, the collection carries these familiar gestures into an imagined archaeological future, where a surfboard, a vinyl record, a VR headset or a drone becomes a clue to the lives once lived around it.
Across all ten works, chipped stone and missing limbs leave the viewer to complete the movement—to recognise the ambition in a leap, the intimacy of listening, the desire to be remembered, and the enduring human impulse to reach beyond ourselves.
The objects tell us when. The gestures tell us who.
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Ten posters. Modern rituals, ancient marble.
PELAGIC FORMS is an experimental fashion collection inspired by Ernst Haeckel's public-domain scientific illustrations from Kunstformen der Natur (1899–1904). I used these archival works to build a custom Recraft V4 Style, translating intricate marine anatomy, organic patterns, and historical color palettes into contemporary couture, streetwear, and accessories. Through detailed product design and creative direction, I developed a cohesive collection and brought it to life through photorealistic editorial campaigns, unconventional styling, and expressive fashion photography. The project explores how forgotten visual archives can inspire an entirely new fashion identity.
Haeckel's sea forms as fashion work really well. Great series.