Deconstructing the Wheel-Lock: A Study in Avant-Garde Form and Materiality As Chief Fabric Deconstructionist for Zoey Fashion Lab, I have been tasked with analyzing a singular artifact: a 17th-century German, likely Bavarian, wheel-lock rifle. This object, composed of steel, brass, and a walnut stock inlaid with bone, ...

The Velvet Ribbon: A Deconstructive Manifesto for SS26 The ribbon, historically a mere embellishment—a whisper of closure, a gesture of ornament—undergoes a radical transmutation in Zoey Fashion Laboratory’s SS26 avant-garde couture study. From its Global Frontier origins, the velvet ribbon emerges not as a decorative ...