What If a Garment Wasn't Made of Fabric?

Most garments begin with fabric.

It's cut, sewn and shaped to fit the body.

I didn't have a sewing machine.

I had a 3D printer.

That's why Bouquet began with a different question:

What if a garment could be assembled instead of sewn?

The idea emerged while exploring modular systems. Rather than designing a complete piece from the start, the project began with a single unit: a flower.

Not a flower as decoration, but as a structural component capable of connecting with others to create larger surfaces.

Behind every flower lies a hexagonal geometry. This six-sided structure allows the modules to connect in multiple ways, creating a flexible network that can grow, transform and adapt.

From a single unit, it becomes possible to build panels, volumes and eventually an entire garment.

What makes modular systems so interesting is that the final object doesn't depend on a fixed shape. It can expand vertically, grow horizontally or change its proportions simply by adding new components.

In other words, the same logic can generate different configurations.

In Bouquet, this allows the piece to adapt to different bodies without redesigning the entire structure. Size is no longer determined by a traditional pattern, but by the way the modules connect to one another.

Although the project begins with digital tools, the final result remains deeply handmade.

Each of the more than 100 flowers that make up the garment is individually 3D printed in flexible TPU and then assembled by hand.

Flower by flower.

That process transforms a collection of independent pieces into a continuous surface capable of moving with the body.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the project is the relationship between function and ornament.

We usually think of flowers as decorative elements added to an existing structure.

Here, the opposite happens.

The flower is the structure.

The flower is the system.

The flower is the garment.

Bouquet explores a different way of building clothing: through connections, repetition and small units that together become something larger than themselves.

A garment built flower by flower.