JANU

Janu is a capsule womenswear collection that honours the work of Lee's mother, a retired artist. The collection draws from archival photographs of her painting series, Being (1994), which explored the existential experience of simply being and existing.

Many of the original paintings no longer exist, surviving only through a small archive of photographs. As the son of an artist, Lee felt a responsibility to preserve and honour her work by reimagining them through this collection.

The collection translates the paintings into printed textiles and tailored silhouettes inspired by the clothing his mother wore to her solo exhibitions. Through Janu, Lee gives the works a new form, allowing them to exist once more, not as paintings on a wall, but as garments carried forward through time.