In a world shaped by forced migration and instability, displaced youth are often silenced in systems that overlook their emotional and creative needs. This project explores how the intersection of fashion and play can open space for reclaiming agency, self-expression and confidence. Grounded in a participatory, practice-based approach, the project engages marginalized teenagers as co-creators — using fashion not as product, but as a tool for storytelling, experimentation and identity-making.

While fashion and play formed the methodological core, football emerged as a shared cultural language — a familiar world through which participants connected, expressed pride and navigated identity.

 The result is a design approach rooted in co-creation and care — one that treats fashion and play as more than aesthetics, but as strategies for visibility, resilience and becoming.