A/W 2023 Scarves Collection
Some collections begin with a season, and some begin with a story already centuries old. The Autumn Winter 2023 collection emerged from the atmosphere of the tapestries of King Sigismund Augustus — their richness, symbolism and quiet grandeur.
Once housed in Wawel Castle, these historic works became a point of departure for a new illustrated world. What remained with me was not only their beauty, but the way they hold narrative within ornament — history woven into image.
The Fairytale Forest
From that dialogue with the past came The Fairytale Forest — a landscape of deep greenery, flowering irises and warm autumnal tones, interrupted by a vivid note of raspberry red.
At its centre, the story unfolds through symbols: the girafficorn, suspended between imagination and myth; the heron, a figure of poise and tranquillity; and the serpent, introducing a quiet tension between harmony and disruption.
What interested me was not illustration as decoration alone, but illustration as a place where atmosphere, memory and meaning can coexist.
Craftsmanship and imagination
Every design begins as a hand-drawn sketch. That first gesture remains essential to me — it is where the composition finds its balance, and where the symbolic language begins to take shape.
Later, translated into silk and finished in Italy, the drawing takes on movement. What was once held on paper begins to live differently: worn close to the body, shifting with light and gesture.
The Autumn Winter 2023 collection is therefore not only about seasonality, but about entering a world — one shaped by history, folklore, craftsmanship and the quiet force of imagination.
Read more about the inspiration behind The Fairytale Forest and explore the collection further.