ÀLEX GINER SALAFashion design & research
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Manual de Sumisión

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2026 / Costume concept and garment development

Costume design for an imagined film adaptation of E. Lily Yu’s story about cartographer wasps and anarchist bees. Insect anatomy, silhouette and material make hierarchy visible, tracing a queen consumed by a system of production and control. Ten characters form this visual world.

The Founder / costume design
The Queen / costume design

Working archive

Observation / anatomy / drawing
Sketchbook / research and costume development
Sketchbook / research and costume development

A system of characters

01–05 / Costume proposals
The Founder / original front and back
The Guardian / original front and back
The Explorer / original front and back
The Scribe / original front and back
The Ambassador / original front and back

Ten character designs for an imagined screen adaptation. Each full image opens for closer reading.

A system of characters

06–10 / Costume proposals
The Chemist / original front and back
The Anarchist / original front and back
The Anarchist Daughter / original front and back
The Queen / original front and back
The Young Woman of Yiwei / original front and back

Ten character designs for an imagined screen adaptation. Each full image opens for closer reading.

The Explorer realised

Drawing / realised upper garment
The Explorer / costume design
The Explorer / realised upper garment

The Explorer’s upper garment was made.

The other character images presented here document costume proposals, rather than a produced film.

03 / Manual de Sumisión