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creative bio

Lille Osborne is a Melbourne-based fashion designer whose work explores conceptual womenswear, drawing on references from historical dress and speculative futures. Her Chinese heritage informs the narratives she engages with and the visual language present in her garments, adding cultural dimension to her practice. She approaches fashion as a way of examining ideas, using design as a tool for research and reflection. This framework shapes her process, grounding each piece in both thought and functionality. Her work seeks to create a quiet dialogue with the wearer, offering clothing that is intentional, considered, and resonant.

Of Flesh and Form delves into the entanglement of the human body, material, and transformation. The collection confronts fashion’s history of carving power, beauty, and status out of the natural world, questioning how the human figure is elevat ed through the literal and symbolic use of other bodies.

Working with cowhide in its natural hair-on state, the gar ments preserve the animal’s physical remnant. Precise cutting exposes the hide’s anatomy, and choices like aligning its spine with the wearer’s own create an unsettling dialogue between two forms, as if one body has been grafted onto another.

Elongated, structured silhouettes reshape the human frame, revealing the quiet tension between adornment and influence. Of Flesh and Form reflects on how identity is shaped through what we take and rework from nature, turning the body into a space where transformation is both deliberate and quietly disquieting..

“as if one body has been grafted onto the other.”

Look 2 consists of a wool and silk twill cropped blazer in puce. It features high shoulders and a pleated double yoke, paired with a matching miniskirt and a speckled calfskin corset.

Look 3 is a calfskin jacket and skirt set. The natural variation of the hide creates a subtle contrast across the jacket, with the spine of the leather carefully aligned with the spine of the wearer. The skirt is crafted from the offcuts of the jacket.