01 / Fashion projectSara Macintyre

An inquiry into belonging

The nestinside me.

Shelter. Passage. Permanence.

Model with both hands on a wooden handrail. The striped piece wraps the neck and shoulders over a red dress.

The body, a first home.Editorial · Photography: Neon Brain

Step inside

I. Shelter

“Before there was a house, the body was already a shelter.”

The first architecture

I have lived in 19 houses, attended 14 schools and crossed 7 cities.

For a long time, home meant leaving. Walls changed, rooms were left behind, paths were lost — but the body remained.

It passed through every door, slept under every roof and kept what places could not keep: the marks, the affections, the absences.

What remained of each place once that place was no longer mine?

Perhaps our first home was never made of walls. Perhaps dwelling begins in the skin.

It is from this intimate permanence that The Nest Inside Me is born.

Close framing of a tilted face and a hand on the handrail, with the textured striped collar around the neck. — Matter against the skin.Editorial · Photography: Neon Brain

Full-length photograph of the look: a fitted red dress, wide sleeves and long panels of red-and-white striped fabric. — Clothing as a second layer of shelter.Editorial · Photography: Neon Brain

II. Passage

To wear
a shelter.

Clothing becomes shelter, a second architecture built upon the skin, made of layers, volumes and recomposed waste that wrap, protect and hold traces of passage.

Back view of the dress, with red cross lacing down the centre, voluminous striped sleeves and ribbons at the cuffs. — Structure, lacing, protection.Editorial · Photography: Neon Brain

Between protection and vulnerability

matter.

Frontal portrait with hands at the temples, red nails, black and red makeup and a striped fabric collar. — A presence that does not come undone.Editorial · Photography: Neon Brain

Memory on the skin.
Shelter in every layer.

III. Permanence

Carrying home
within.

Model leaning forward with hands raised, showing the volume of the sleeves, the red ribbons and the striped panels of the skirt. — A form in motion.Editorial · Photography: Neon Brain

Model on a wooden staircase in a red dress, with red-and-white striped fabric forming voluminous sleeves and panels over the skirt. — The body meets architecture.Editorial · Photography: Neon Brain

A collection about what we carry when everything around us changes.

Before there was a house, the body was already a shelter.

IV. In her own voice

One minute
inside the nest.

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Sara Macintyre presents The Nest Inside Me: behind the scenes, the process and the look in motion.

V. Personal records

Other ways of seeing the garment.

Photographs from the personal archive: gestures, details and different angles of the collection's pieces.

Personal record of the red and striped look, with one hand raised. — Gesture and volume.

The collar follows the movement.

Personal record of the look with a pale oval accessory raised beside the face. — The accessory as an extension of the garment.

Personal record of the back of the red dress, with a wide collar and ribbons. — The construction seen from behind.

Full-length personal record: red dress, striped panels and oval accessory. — The look in its entirety.

VI. Creative process

Before the garment, the idea.

Sketches, visual references and notes reveal the research into shapes, colours and textures behind the making of the collection.

Three fashion sketches in red and pale tones, studying silhouettes and volumes. — Sketches — first ways of dwelling.

Reference board with cut-outs, textures and organic shapes in red, pink and green. — References — colour, texture and organic form.

Sketches, visual references and a page of notes gathered on one board. — Research — where image meets word.

A page of notes and drawings over a board of references and sketches. — Notes — ideas taking shape.

Materials and encounters

The pieces in this collection were made with ReTrama fabrics, managed by the Hermann Hering Foundation from repurposed industrial textile waste from Hering.

With affection, I thank everyone who was part of this process.

The Nest Inside Me

Fashion project

Editorial

Credits for the professional shoot. Personal and process records are identified in their own sections.

Styling & direction: Sara Macintyre de Souza Ferreira
Model: Issabela Reis@travissaaa
Photography: Neon Brain
Makeup: Gael Bohr
Location: Castelinho da Hering — Blumenau
Executive management: Fernanda Rickmann | SCMC

Moda Amanhã 2026

Executive management: Fernanda Rickmann | SCMC
Creative direction: Vinicius Schane
Creative mentorship: Ana Lucia Niepceron, Beto Shibata, Simone Passarin and Vinicius Schane
Technical & teaching support — IFSC Jaraguá do Sul: @carol_daffre @alangouveiaa @emanoela.mardula