I have mixed feelings about generative AI.

I kinda hate it. Not really. OK maybe a little. I find it lacks fulfillment, empty calories in a creative diet. But I used it here, to realize a vision I’ve had for years.

A men's suit with a suit jacket, dress shirt, and tie, featuring a design of green foliage and moss covering the jacket.

“Alto Terrestre”

Or High Earth, is the only personal project of mine to use generative AI (although there was plenty of photography and pixel polishing involved). But, it would have taken forever to create from scratch, at least to the extent I imagined. So this is an exercise in concept, not of process.

A pair of intricately designed dress shoes with a tree and root motif, in shades of black and tan, against a dark background.

The concept.

A designer label that ignores the human canvas. Clothes and accessories more interested in materials than models. Fashion unhampered by feasibility, wardrobes only wearable in theory. I imagined haute couture that, for once, is not about us.

It’s about wood and moss, stone and leaves. It fetishizes flora and fauna. It mimics without mocking the fur and features of animals. It is a celebration of nature, made with artificial compromise.