The traje de mestiza—once a symbol of colonial hybridity and elite femininity—is reengineered in MESTIZA.EXE as an act of creative rebellion and ancestral memory. This series reimagines the iconic butterfly-sleeved silhouette as a relic of the past and as a living interface between tradition, technology, and speculative identity.

Each look fuses indigenous Filipino craft, encoded cultural symbols, and surreal materials—glass, light-reactive fibers, holograms—into avant-garde forms that float, bloom, fracture, and evolve. Here, the mestiza becomes a myth, a machine, a memory, and a movement—no longer defined by history, but by radical imagination.