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The Remembering Shell
This piece is carved from shadow and time — a sculptural invocation of the 12th century imagined through the lens of exile, memory, and ancestral force. Inspired by cave ritual and medieval relics, it draws from eras where women were saints, scribes, or stone.
It is not a dress.
It is a testament.
Made to recall the scarred beauty of limestone, the severity of penitential garb, and the power of female endurance, The Remembering Shell is both a shield and a shrine. Fabric becomes ossified. Lace becomes ligament. Form becomes remembrance.
This is resistance couture: unsmiling, unsoftened, unashamed.
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#sculptural #ritualwear #textilememory #avantgarde #sacredfashion #12thcentury #cavewoman #conceptualgarment #archivalcouture #stoneandlace #resistancecouture #VireoAtelier #SentinelArchive #margaretmcisaac
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About Me
Margaret McIsaac is a Canadian designer and textile thinker working across ritualwear, resistance couture, and poetic fashion storytelling. Her work is divided into two parallel lines:
- **Sentinel Archive**: Conceptual, sculptural, and politically charged garments that interrogate memory, containment, and sacred authority.
- **Vireo Atelier**: A softer, nature-driven expression focusing on intimacy, rebirth, and textile storytelling where the personal becomes mythic.
Drawing from coastal memory, embroidery, landscape photography, and spiritual, historical and political motifs, Margaret uses fashion as a form of testimony and reclamation. Each collection is an entry in a larger record, a living archive of the seen and unseen.
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Sentinel Archive / Vireo Atelier Two voices. One truth.