Fashion: The Blessed Blooms of Broken Things

The Blooming Cardinal

A playful metaphor to the secretly queer cardinal. Covering himself in a long cassock with a sense of restriction. Embellished with fresh preserved pansies from my hometown in a shiny material. Referencing the way flower names were used as derogatory terms for queer people in the beginning of the 20th century.
Getting restricted, nearly suffocated by a swarm of flowers, pansies.

Coat from pansies, urethane rubber and deadstock leather sponsored by Ecco Leather.

The Pleasure and Pain of Saint Sebastian

The re-appropriation of a traditional/Christian story through a queer lens. Saint Sebastian embodying ideals of ephebic beauty. The Christian fixation with desirable bodies of its saints and the permeable boundaries between the bodily flesh and the divine may be seen as homoerotic or queer. With the pleasure and pain dichotomy within Christian martyrdom. While interpreting Saint Sebastian’s execution as a sort of coming out narrative, in which the martyr reveals his true self and is punished for it.
The scrap bicycle materials being a nod to the country I grew up, memories of the forest bike trips together with my family. While also representing pressure and tightness with the valve silencing itself and hardening under pressure until it finally releases the air tightness and lets loose.

High-waisted trousers from scrap bike inner tubes (rubber, metal)

Humanoid of Decay

Exploring the body and human form using the tension between the natural, industrial and historical. Nature, mythology and human forms collide. The way in which industrial materials can take on humanoid forms and seem to be undetectable in this world full of industrialization. My designs mimicking decaying skin which signifies the human hopefulness in technology and industrialization that tends to ultimately lead to the decay of matter over time.

Dress from deadstock silk, naturally dyed, and scrap electrical wiring.