A figure in a red coat stands on a white terrace above the sea, a great sheet of ochre cloth turning in the air above.

Origin

The Sirocco is a wind that originates in the Sahara desert and travels north across the Mediterranean, depositing African dust on European soil. Africa physically arrives in Europe through this wind. Most people never know what they are looking at when the sky turns amber.

Sirocco is an AI-generated body of work imagining a fashion world that never existed. It is rooted in West and North African dress and set down wherever the wind reaches: a redwood forest, a clay tennis court, a house above the sea, a lunch laid out in the desert.

When the wind arrives it changes the colour of an entire sky. The work is made to be seen large for the same reason.

The wind carries Africa to the rest of the world.