BLEACH GRAFFITI ©️

This dress pattern was made for the Fractal Plume© shoot with Shannen Thirlaway. The technique was simple, in principle: small paintbrushes and ordinary domestic bleach, worked directly onto the black fabric, then washed quickly before the bleach could go too far. That process was repeated, section by section, until the overall pattern felt right.

It's a technique that rewards patience more than precision. Bleach doesn't behave like paint — it reacts, lifts, and spreads a little unpredictably, and washing it out at the right moment is part of the skill. No two marks come out quite the same, which is exactly what gives the finished pattern its raw, hand-drawn energy rather than anything printed or designed on a screen.

Looking at the finished dress now, it brings to mind Keith Haring's work painting Grace Jones — those sessions where his bold, instinctive white lines turned her body into something closer to a tribal queen in ritual dress than anything conventionally "designed." There's a tribal feel running through Bleach Graffiti© too: the marks aren't measured or symmetrical, they read more like something ceremonial, drawn by hand with intention rather than precision. Both approaches strip things right back to line and shape and let that rawness carry the power.

Worn with Fractal Plume©, the dress becomes the perfect visual partner to the hair — pattern against pattern, animal-print energy meeting bold graphic strokes, both built from the same instinct to make something that looks torn straight from instinct rather than a sketchbook.

Model: Shannen Thirlaway | Hair: Fractal Plume©

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Ai added a necklace for drama.

Ai alteration adding depth and pops of colour.

Go and think for yourself. The world has enough copies.