MINOAR COLLECTION SERIES
ATLAS
The collection draws inspiration from Gerardus Mercator, the 16th-century cartographer whose 1569 projection transformed the globe into a strict system of vertical and horizontal lines. Created for navigation, the Mercator grid made direction readable: curved space was reduced to order, coordinates, and movement.
A COLLECTED WORLDThe name ATLAS refers to Mercator’s later cartographic work, where the word became connected to the idea of a collected world: a system of maps, routes, and coordinates held together in one body. MINOÁR explores this idea through a collection of connected garments, built through the same Fiber Bond language. Each piece becomes part of a larger cartographic structure.
THE MERCATOR GRIDATLAS draws inspiration from Gerardus Mercator, the 16th-century cartographer whose 1569 projection transformed the globe into a strict system of vertical and horizontal lines. Created for navigation, the Mercator grid made direction readable: curved space was reduced to order, coordinates, and movement.
FIBER BONDMINOÁR translates this idea through Fiber Bond. Thin fabric strips are sewn into linear, fragmented structures, forming the idea of cartography across the garment. The surface becomes an imagined map of vertical routes, horizontal directions, and chaotic paths, brought together into one whole.
TITANThe TITAN pieces focus specifically on the shoulders. In Greek mythology, Atlas is the Titan condemned to carry the heavens on his shoulders. Here, that image becomes construction. The garment is reduced to the axis of the shoulders, carried by the strongest point of the body and shaped as a fragment of a larger mapped world.
TITAN / SHOULDERS
COEUS / SELENE
UPPER FORMS
ACCESSORIES
LOWER FORMS
