Breaking the Habit

The Smoking Nun

Elizabeth Wilson, Fashion Theorist refers to the individual as an actor, not a gendered individual, just an actor performing under a mode of beliefs creating an identity or illusion of the gendered core.


E Wilson, Adorned in Dreams, 2007


My collection has been inspired by the body as a variable surface, influenced by culture, social surroundings, politics, hierachy, compulsory sexuality and gender.
Researching the interchangable performance of gender i was inspired to create a design collection that was not focused on dressing the 'gendered body' but dressing the body through elements of performance on interchangable gender.

The title of my collection will be 'Breaking the Habit'

Exploring The Paradigm of Masqerade Through Superhero's

Dressing up as a superhero
Fabrications of personal identity are represented through an object of desire, the superhero. An escape from reality through fantasy to escape the ordinary.

Looking into our inner child
Children have inspired my collection to design through their eyes. They seek a world with no boundaries or rules and inspire a world created by their own fantasies, with no understanding of what is acceptable or appropriate in society. Children do not understand gender, sexuality, identity or politics, in their world they can be whatever they want to be. A bird, a fairy, superman, batman or robin. It does not affect their decisions that they cannot fly...

Masquerade of Dressing up: The Ungendered Body

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The Ungendered Body

The transformation of the body into a metaphor, dressing to our fantasies from fictional characters and superhero's. It is an escape from the worlds realities emerging form through myth and illusion.

The body meditates from its physical state, masked into a state of illusion.

Dude looks like a Lady

(Marv, robber from home alone)

Dressing up: photo taken at a dress up party. Theme'Where were you in 1992?'

This costume was an inspiration from the films we grew up with in the 90's