This collection is very personal, rooted in nostalgia and the reflections of an émigré far from home. It draws on the art of Symbolist painter Victor Borisov-Musatov, whose work evokes ghosts of memory, soft haze, and a longing for moments that never were. The collection also explores the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries — a time that overlapped with the first wave of emigration in Russia, echoed again in 1922. OTASI translates these influences into a pale color palette, period-inspired silhouettes, delicate lace, and intricate lacing details, capturing a sense of longing, reflection, and the subtle poetry of memory.