SPFW N59: Reptilia

Beneath the skin of the world, Tectônica pulses: a name that does not whisper but roars, evoking the raw material of the Earth. That is the core of Reptilia's new collection. 

The collection is born of movement and force, of the invisible gesture that, over millennia, sculpts mountains and hollows. The clothes also slide, shed their skin, transform like landscapes in slow mutation. The tailoring, firm as rock, precise as the cut of a mineral, carries seams that recall geological faults, silhouettes that unfold time. Coats and capes emerge like layered crusts, opening strata that reveal what was once secret. Everything is articulated in pieces that offer multiple versions of themselves, in a choreography of possibilities.

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See the main highlights of the show in the augmented reality experience below

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Like the shirting that extends and retracts its sleeves like plates adjusting, now short, now long, creating movement and force out of lightness. Between the rigour of tailoring and the whisper of Victorian tradition, Reptilia stitches past and present, structure and fluidity, shadow and shine. On the surface, the gesture is technical, precise: laser cuts draw contours that recall architecture, but soon give way to the skin of the organic: offcuts that become texture, curves embroidered by hand like sediments of time. A new print emerges: made of sand, cracks and water, it captures the silence of Middle Eastern soil through Heloisa's lens. Printed on silk and ramie, the image echoes the mineral landscape of the collection: sandy tones, browns that deepen like trenches, greys that shine without light, blues of stone and of sky.

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The collection folds over the accessories too: moccasins, belts and bags made in layers by the artist Juliana Bicudo, where pleat and cut also speak of fissure and reconstruction. Everything fits together like living plates, composing a wardrobe of tectonic memory. To create, here, is to excavate; to dress is to move like the Earth: firm, but in constant reinvention.

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