Now is the time of monsters

Patterns, garments and creative direction for Studio L’Narte

Reactive digital printing · 2025

Viscose, organic cotton and ECONYL · Studio L’Narte

Photography: Klara Granberg

About the project

Now is the time of monsters (2025) is Studio L’Narte’s first collection of garments and textiles featuring patterns by Amandah L’Narte. The collection was developed through pre-orders and co-creation, with the aim of allowing production to follow actual demand.

The collection grew from the experience of a world that seemed to have been turned upside down. Trust, courage and love are pushed aside while fear and destructive forces are given more room. The title places the collection between an old world that is disappearing and a new one that has yet to find its form. Chaos before order. A time for monsters.

The way the collection was made was an important part of the project. Instead of manufacturing a complete stock in advance, the garments were available to pre-order. This created the financial conditions for production and made it possible to avoid producing more garments than there was actual demand for.

Family, friends, future customers and collaborators were also invited to take part in the creative process. They could pre-order and wear garments from the collection, buy Amandah’s printed fabrics and make their own clothes, or contribute to the creation of showpieces. Konrad L’Narte built the temporary wooden sculpture together with participants in the project.

The patterns were printed on viscose, organic cotton and ECONYL using reactive digital printing. All garments were made in Stockholm.

On Saturday 14 June 2025, the collection was shown at House of Peacocks. The following day, the participants gathered in Nacka Nature Reserve for a collaborative photo shoot with Klara Granberg. Bodies, garments, textiles and constructed objects came together in a visual world where the class photograph met sculpture, community, wilderness and freedom.

Betsey Gusman documented the fashion show at House of Peacocks and the work behind the scenes during the photo shoot on 15 June. Her photographs became part of the collection’s visual launch.

Evgenia, Björn, Amandah, Konrad, Maria and Sara in patterned sets and kaftans in front of a painted sun with a face.

A fashion monster standing on gravel, wearing an orange mask and patterned fabric ribbons between two black cut-out hands with eyes.

Konrad in a black-and-white patterned set, high in the wooden structure and holding a painted moon aloft against the forest.

A group of people lying on spread-out lengths of fabric between painted parasols and black cut-out hands with eyes.

Brita standing in a pine forest with their eyes closed and long ribbons in their hair, wearing a blouse patterned in blue, orange, black and white.

Behind the scenes, a person seen from behind with long patterned ribbons in their hair, wearing a silk kimono in blue, brown and gold.

Behind the scenes, Brita and Dominika getting ready in backlight, dressed in an orange spotted blouse and patterned trousers in pink, blue and black.

A group of people lying in an overlapping circle, photographed from above, their patterned garments forming a continuous field.

Behind the scenes, fashion monsters dressed in patterned kimonos and sets in orange, blue and brown, waiting in pink light.

A fashion monster in a patterned blouse, shorts and wrapped leg warmers in blue and orange, leaning against a pine trunk.

Behind the scenes, a fashion monster in a blue-and-white patterned set with a white feather boa and a pink fan, in front of a clothing rack.

Three people seen from below, their heads forming a circle and long ribbons radiating from their hair.

Behind the scenes, Konrad and Amandah embracing in patterned garments, one in a colourful collage and the other in black and white.

Behind the scenes, Amandah wearing a hat with long ribbons and a patterned kimono in pink, blue, black and white.

A fashion monster in a blue-and-orange patterned blouse and shorts, standing among pine trees with ribbons in their hair.

Three fashion monsters in patterned sets moving through bilberry bushes, each with a large cut-out flower in front of their face.