The "Machines of Loving Grace collection" is YUEQI QI’s Ride of the Valkyries. A group of reluctant heroines band together to fight back against the digital Moloch. It is a journey back to nature, lit with smartphones. It’s becoming more difficult to parse what is real and what is augmented, and our heroines have had enough. They want the real thing. With steady hands, flowers are dissected, pinned down, and rebuilt with human-made materials.Deadstock headphones are repurposed to become anthers of flowers. Recycled PTE is used as petals on laser-cut garments. Crocheted collars and cuffs act as the sepals to support the pistil. The flowers are supported by a strong foundation of burnout and stone-washed denim. Imprints of flowers are found on washed denim and jersey like fossils of extinct plants. Laser cut-out petals on bomber skirts act as hieroglyphs and memories of nature are pieced back together like an intricate puzzle. Mycelium cut shirts and skirts are an homage to fungi and their vast ecological networks. Floral headpieces are made of denim which has been cut, washed, lasered, and form closely to the skull.

Bomber jackets contain the headphone anther motif and stars. Why? Because we traded our stars for the city lights and we miss them dearly. Faux-fur shearling coats are available in vanilla mint and brown poodle. They are floral, studded, and warm as hell. Yueqi put out a call to her customers to send in their old clothes for an upcycling project. She took what was old and undesirable and reworked them into showpieces. Knit sweaters were unwound and the yarn was used to crochet flowers for the crochet flower dresses.