Abstract
How can balance and inner strength be made wearable both in the literal and metaphorical sense? And does my horse think I am beautiful?
On a rainy night, a young woman named Justitia sits on her husband‘s gravestone, cynical and withdrawn, when a stranger in a trenchcoat approches. Their sharp, sarcastic conversation touches on love, loss and power, slowly revealing deeper reflections on desire, fidelity and identity. Through flashbacks and blurred memories, the complexities of her relationships emerge, including her unfulfilled attraction to another woman named Chat (cat) and a dinner meant to hide yet expose hidden tensions.
As a child, storytelling, dressing up, and filming were central ways of understanding the world, and I deliberately use this childlike imagination as an artistic strategy.
My fashion thesis is a holistic, practice-based, performative research process in which doing is central: learning through sewing, testing, and wearing, guided by intuition, tuning in, and reflection.
Working transdisciplinarily is part of the medium, allowing costume making, writing, drawing, music, filmmaking, and collaboration to merge into a shared narrative. Doing Fashion operates as an expanded field: garments become narrative carriers, culminating in a film-based world for the characters. To carry is chaos, beautiful, and complex. It is the act of creating interconnected stories.
See Justitia‘s story unfold through the film and the narrative of the costumes.
