It began with a name so popular.

words, tucked away on a faded digital archive page: Soren Bellandi. There was no photograph attached, no neat biography, only a brief mention in Parsons Global’s “Visionaries of the Modern Era.”

I had been scrolling through decades of history for a textile project, names of legends flashing past me—Laurent, Voss, Kimura. And then his appeared.

Not bold.

Not highlighted.

Just there.

And yet the moment my eyes touched it, something in me shifted. My ...