Under the burning Mediterranean sun, Sofia wanders between the pull of her mother’s illness and the ache of her own desires. Hot Milk lingers with images both surreal and unsettling: a line that cuts like truth, a cowboy boot sunk in sand, jellyfish drifting beneath the waves.
Reflect Studio, in collaboration with MUBI, turns these fragments of the film into something you can hold, wear, and live with. The special release includes just two pieces; a cap and a bandana, but each one carries the weight of a scene, a feeling, a memory pulled from the screen.
Why this sentence, on a cap?
"This book I’ve realised, is not about love."
When Sofia voices this truth, it pierces the story like sunlight breaking into a room. For us, it became the essence of the film: an awakening, both painful and liberating. Placing it on the cap was our way of holding onto that clarity. It’s not just a line you read, it’s something you wear, close to you, like a thought that refuses to leave.
Cowboys and Jellyfish: A Bandana of Symbols
Two images haunted us most: the cowboy boot and the jellyfish.
The boot, glimpsed against the raw Spanish landscape, reminded us of Sofia’s restless urge to step outside the life laid out for her. It’s absurd, almost out of place, and yet it feels like a call for freedom.
The jellyfish, floating just below the water, is hypnotic and dangerous at once. In it, we saw Sofia’s relationship with her mother; beautiful, translucent, and capable of stinging with pain.
We chose to bring these two symbols together on a bandana, washed in shades of orange, the color of Mediterranean heat and unease. To us, it’s not decoration—it’s memory, translated into fabric.
