SHERLON
GARBO

This ensemble fuses contemporary high fashion with cultural storytelling through the use of raffia, a traditional fibre used in Indigenous weaving across Africa, the Pacific, and Australia. The hat, bold and sculptural, evokes rawness but exaggerates scale and texture, turning heritage craft into statement architecture. The red blazer with white lapels and the turquoise shirt-and-tie combination bring in a cinematic sharpness and theatrical tailoring. The oversized black trousers ground the look with volume and movement, almost like the flow of woven fibres, while the raffia bag fringe literalises the thread of tradition extending into the present. The polka-dot flower softens the structure, symbolising the organic artistry at the heart of handmade design. Perhaps, this outfit could be described as decolonial couture: a dialogue between Indigenous craftsmanship and Western sartorial codes. It isn’t simply borrowing Indigenous motifs, it is transforming a material rooted in community and land into a high-fashion statement of identity and respect. It’s a reminder that fabric is language. Raffia, here, speaks not just of style but of continuity, how something made by hand, from the earth, can still define modern elegance.