THE COLUMBIDAE HER NEST Photographer: @sybi.photodesign / Designer: @tylagroeninckx / Makeup & hair: @nicky.de.winter / Models: @fayschols @noageyskens @jillmodelsmgmt / Location: @murmur.ghent

Designer Tyla Groeninckx studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, she just finished her second bachelor. The Columbidae her nest is the title of the collection that shows Tyla’s love for the place where she grew up and still lives,  surrounded by nature.

 ‘It is a big part of who I am today. The collection is a series of memories that formed me. Like 6 year old me who went protesting against hunting at her school. The colors are taken from nature and the models wear stones as rings. Some stones from my garden, some minerals bought throughout my life. They bring protection and a little part of my garden to the wearer of the look. The collection translates my loud opinion against hunting when I was 6 years old. And my current quiet love for pigeons, which is one of my favorite animals, yet a very hated bird. The collection becomes more quiet towards the end to show me becoming more quiet. I like observing nature and people. It calms down, grounded, back to nature and everything pure.’