Caribbean Baroque Explores Caribbean Womanhood Through 3D-Printed Lingerie

A Fully 3D-Printed Lingerie Collection Exploring Memory, Maternal Legacy, and Caribbean Womanhood

Front view of "Sensuality" 3D-Printed Capelet & Bodysuit

Sideview of "Sensuality" 3D-Printed Capelet & Bodysuit

Back view of "Sensuality" 3D-Printed Capelet & Bodysuit

London, U.K., July 2025

Caribbean Baroque is a speculative, fully 3D-printed lingerie collection that merges Caribbean cultural memory with Baroque ornamentation, positioning intimate apparel as an archive of lived experience. Designed and fabricated entirely through additive manufacturing, the collection explores how memory, heritage, and femininity can be encoded into structure, pattern, and material.

The collection is conceived as an ode to Caribbean women, grounded specifically in the designer’s Jamaican mother. Archival images of her young adult years in Jamaica informed the richness, colour, and playfulness of the designs, while her multifaceted character shaped the emotional attributes assigned to each look. These attributes – sensuality, playfulness, creativity, sisterhood, and adoration – operate as both design prompts and narrative anchors.

Front view of 3D-printed Slip titled "Creativity"

Three-quarter view of 3D-printed Slip titled "Creativity"

Back view of 3D-printed Slip titled "Creativity"

Three-quarter view of 3D-printed Bra and Tap Pants titled "Playfulness"

Three-quarter view of 3D-printed Bra and Tap Pants titled "Playfulness"

Three-quarter view of 3D-printed Bra and Tap Pants titled "Playfulness"

Three-quarter view of 3D-printed Bra and Tap Pants titled "Playfulness"

As a child, the designer learnt Jamaican children’s games through her mother, absorbing rhythm, movement, and communal play as embodied knowledge. Later, her mother introduced her to lingerie not as concealment or spectacle, but as an intimate language of self-adoration, confidence, and care. These moments form the conceptual backbone of Caribbean Baroque, where lingerie becomes a medium for inherited knowledge rather than a purely decorative object.

Formally, the collection combines Baroque lace logic, including scrolls, symmetry, density, and ornament, with Caribbean colour palettes and floral references. Each garment is materialised through traditional fashion craft practice and fully 3D-printed using flexible polymers, producing lace-like surfaces that negotiate softness and structure without traditional textiles. Mesh density, motif placement, and ornamental edges are programmed to respond to the body, creating pieces that sit between garment, artefact, and speculative heirloom.

Front view of “Sisterhood” 3D-Printed Tank top and French knickers.

Side view of “Sisterhood” 3D-Printed Tank top and French knickers.

Close up Back view of “Sisterhood” 3D-Printed Tank top.

Back view of “Sisterhood” 3D-Printed Tank top and French knickers.

Caribbean Baroque positions lingerie as both personal and cultural infrastructure, garments that hold memory, care, and relational history within their printed lattices. Through this work, the designer asks what it might mean for intimacy to be inherited, for maternal influence to be structurally preserved, and for Caribbean femininity to be self-defined through emerging fabrication technologies.

The collection contributes to ongoing conversations around digital craft, Black diasporic design, and the future of intimate apparel, proposing 3D printing not as novelty but as a contemporary extension of historical lace-making traditions.

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