In a time marked by a crisis of intimacy—where connection is disembodied, love is filtered through market logic and desire takes shape in digital battlefields—I turn to personal experience, the knightly tradition and men’s tailoring to reimagine the uniform of a modern romantic. Knight Shift begins from the bottom up, presenting a collection of male underwear as the site of erotic potential, vulnerability and silent messages.

The pieces are shaped by the metaphors of love-as-gamble and love-as-drug and anchored in the acts of offering, undressing and healing. Worked in leather, patinated copper and silver, the undergarments carry the tactile language of tokens, marks left on bodies by bodies.

A clear progression for Knight Shift would be to expand this intimate vocabulary by adding further forms of body adornment to the armoury and refining the ‘dateness card’ as a tactile invitation in a culture increasingly at a loss for touch.