Somnium Mens

The inspiration for this collection is dreams. It's called "Somnium", the Latin word for dream, because I wanted to explore the world we live in when we're asleep, the one place where every one of us is completely free. In dreams there are no labels, no rules, no gravity. The people we love come back to us. The things we're afraid of show up wearing strange faces. And sometimes we wake up holding an answer we couldn't find while we were awake. For this collection I collaborated with my friend Morgan Winter, who painted directly onto the garments. Her surreal eyes watch from the fabric the way images watch us in dreams, familiar and strange at the same time. She painted a clear jacket splattered with paint, so the color floats on the body like something you almost remember, and details like that run through the whole collection. Nothing is quite solid, and nothing is only one thing. Whether your dreams are the ones you have asleep or the ones you're chasing awake, they're the most honest version of you. When we let ourselves dream, really dream, we create our own Somnium. Photography by Joe Kramm