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The body is a sacred relic \u2014 fragile, mortal, and worthy of preservation. Ossuary conceives the garment as a living architectural structure, where Gothic verticality forms the bones and a corset-inspired foundation echoes Victorian ideals of bodily perfection and the constructed silhouette. The shell does not merely protect; it defines, compresses, and elevates \u2014 asserting that what encases us ultimately shapes how we are seen and how we see ourselves. Drawing from the deconstructed reverence of Maison Margiela, the dark romanticism of John Galliano, and the organic architecture of Iris van Herpen, the work investigates the tension between interior softness and exterior fortification. 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