PROJECT CONCEPT
My collection explores the theme of duality. My research focuses on how women are portrayed in gothic literature and modern day media. These depictions usually rely on two contrasting sterytopes of womanhood: the pure, innocent, Madonna character, or the promiscuous and sensual femme fatale. This inspired me to investigate the “Madonna whore complex”, which is a pattern of thought that divides women into these two mutually exclusive categories. My collection rejects this false dichotomy; providing clothes for a multifaceted modern woman
