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SS26 — Pressed Flower
Written by Olivia Bennett
Pressed Flower began in a garden in Wicklow, with a shoebox of blooms flattened between the pages of an old atlas. Nobody was designing anything at the time. Somebody was simply keeping a summer.
Keeping the accidents
We worked with Wilde Studio to translate them — not to redraw the flowers, but to keep the accidents: the bruised petal, the stem that dried crooked, the faint shadow where the paper took the colour.
A redrawn flower is a decision. A pressed one is a record. The difference is visible at arm’s length, even to people who could not say why.
Cutting around the print
The print runs across three pieces this season, each cut so the pattern sits uninterrupted across the body. That constraint decided most of the pattern-cutting before we began:
A column dress, cut on the straight so the stems run true from shoulder to hem.
An overshirt, where the print is allowed to break only at the side seam.
A wide trouser, printed to sit below the waistband so the eye reads the leg as one piece.
Where it sits
Pressed Flower belongs to SS26 Within the Garden, and it will not return. The blooms it came from are already gone. That seemed the honest way to run it.
Rachael, Wilde Studio
Frequently Asked Questions
Where did the Pressed Flower print come from?
From a shoebox of blooms flattened between the pages of an old atlas in a garden in Wicklow.
Who drew the print?
Wilde Studio, the floral duo we have worked with for three seasons. They translated the pressings rather than redrawing them.
How many pieces carry the print?
Three this season, each cut so the pattern runs uninterrupted across the body.
