Redelinquentation marks HWKIM’s debut collection, a compositional experiment at the edge of narrative. It does not simply recall the past but asks how the emotions of that time continue to resonate. For some, those years feel like a golden age of youth; for others, a time shadowed by fear and tension. School corridors contained both order and unease. Teenagers laughed loudly in uniform. Movements were synchronised, yet slightly off-beat. Within these moments, urgent and uncertain feelings began to take shape. The designer calls himself a “little rioter”, neither full destroyer nor passive victim. His stance lies between compliance and quiet rebellion: belonging to the group yet standing slightly apart. The collection draws vitality from this emotional ambiguity — too raw for nostalgia, too candid for comfort. HWKIM revisits the objects that defined that time: rusted basketball hoops, battered motorbikes, worn school uniforms, flattened cigarette packs hidden in pockets. These traces of memory are reconstructed not to restore the past but to reassemble it. The garments become memory, resistance, fragments of emotion. They do not soothe but rather hold the contradictions and discomforts inherent in remembering, focusing on the quiet aesthetics of survival born in tension. Silhouettes resist clear definition. Protruding shoulder lines, structural tension, and exaggerated volumes evoke gestures of threat, defence, and rebellion. School uniforms, puffer jackets, and biker outerwear are reimagined — not as formal appropriations, but as emotional devices. Within their frameworks, these amplified details express an ambivalent identity — longing for rebellion yet confined by structure. The garment does not represent a fixed self but captures the body’s shifting postures and fluid emotions.