Archive 000

Prototype / 2025

Lotus 001

Lotus 001 began with a collection of jackets.

I wanted a way to add something personal to the garments I already wore—an object that could live on the jacket without permanently altering it. The existing buttonhole became the starting point.

What began as a mounting idea gradually became something more personal. The Lotus gave the object its form, and the first prototypes were cut in Los Angeles in 2025.

Los Angeles / 2025

Cutting the first prototype

A lotus form being machined in a fixture on a mill bed

Early studies explored different materials, proportions, and mounting geometries before the form was ultimately developed for silver.

The first prototypes were considerably larger than the finished piece. Cutting them physically, and wearing them, established the scale the Lotus would eventually hold.

An early lotus prototype held between two fingers, its surface still raw from machining

An early prototype fitted through the buttonhole of a dark jacket placket

The mounting system evolved alongside it. Early versions led to a flatter bar geometry, designed to keep the Lotus level against the garment when worn.

A lotus prototype worn on the placket of a dark jacket beside its maker's label

A prototype mounted on a jacket hanging against a wall

These studies established the form and single-piece architecture that would become Lotus 001.

The final prototype, its lotus cut in dimensional relief, worn in the buttonhole of a black denim jacket — Final prototype

The design matured over several months, carried through Africa, Asia and Europe in between. The flat silhouette gave way to a dimensional lotus, and that became the form taken into production.

Stray Lotus

Los Angeles

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