Octi Presents The Rocks: SS26
For SS26, Octi invited visitors into a world where jewellery expands beyond typical scale, becoming landscapes in miniature. The debut collection, The Rocks, “captures fragments of nature and translates them into precious metals.” The work shows moments shaped by erosion, delay, and human interaction, creating pieces across physical and sentiment bodies.
The collection explores rocks in all their forms, some pieces cast smaller stones to bring parts of vast terrains to the wearer’s scale; others interpret entire landscapes through texture, pattern, colour, and gemstone. Octi explains: “Observing how patterns and textures within nature repeat themselves in different locations and on different scales – showing how everything is connected.” The jewellery mirrors these repetitions, inviting a collective connection with the world around them.
The presentation was immersive and sensory, divided into three distinct islands, each evoking its own climate, colour palette, and scent, yet unified through shared patterns and jewellery.
The journey begins on the Jurassic Island, inspired by the dramatic rock formations of the UK’s Jurassic Coast. Chains of rocks hang above mounds, dotted with ‘fossils’ including jewellery and metallic forms. Sculptures by Lucy Page and collaborative rock-metal hybrids from Ebb Collective mirror the textures of the collection itself. “Other formations in collaboration with Ebb Collective merge rock with metal – a material connection that also informed the collection,” the PR notes.
Next, the Green Island immerses visitors in flora, where moss-draped rocks mirrors patterns found throughout the jewellery.
The journey concludes in the Floating Desert, a set of suspended rock formations, still in time, echoing the casting process that preserves smaller rocks as “moments in time.” Monolithic sculptures, created with Ebb Collective, integrate layered imagery and jewellery-inspired textures, while the sand below exposes the interplay of manmade and natural materials.
A film by Ruby Harris complements the experience, showing a journey from the point of view of a tiny observer navigating the jewellery landscapes, the film reinforces the collection’s exploration of scale, texture, and the repetition of nature’s forms.
The Rocks challenges the notion that jewellery must remain small and purely decorative. Through Octi’s vision, stones and metals become worlds in themselves, a collection where every piece carries the weight of time, terrain, and narrative.
Set design: Phoebe Shakespeare
Artist collaborators: Ebb Collective (Lisa Darrer, Claire Pritchard, Rosalind Wilson), Lucy Page
Sound: Toraigh Watson | Film: Ruby Harris | Scent: Malin + Goetz
Garments: Skin Series | Styling: Lucy James | Hair: Matthew Tharp | Skin: Takeru Urushibara
Casting: Tide Casting | Models: Amal Oluwatobi, Sam Beukenholdt, Ava Skye Bavington
Production: Blonstein | Lookbook photography: Sam Nicklin | Creative direction: Octi Ransom
