CONCEPT

As a child, I believed that everything had a life. That everything had feelings. When I was in woodworking class and was about to create my very first butter knife, I became curious. Why didn't the wood scream when I sanded it? Why didn't it cry when I sawed into it?
I associate softness with the body and life. Everything living has something soft in it. There is nothing hard that is alive.
With this as a starting point, I began to explore materials and their life, and from that, the collection 'Meatmarket' was born.
The starting point for the collection is the feeling of being in a depersonalizing environment where one is seen solely as a sexual resource. In a nightclub, one can feel like a piece of meat, a sensation of only the body existing, not even the inner self. It's like being dead, yet alive. This is something most women have experienced and can probably relate to. The phenomenon itself is rooted in the fact that as a woman, you do not have the same opportunities as a man. As a woman, you can never dress how you want, never move how you want, never be completely free. You are part of a meat parade, whether you want to be or not.
The collection consists of three outfits where the focus is on the balance between protected and exposed, distortions of the body, and materiality. A heavy dress tied with rope, where the rope symbolizes limitation and the feeling of being trapped. A skirt made from wet-form leather, where ropes were used to create a shibori effect. A top with linen fabric in tears, enhancing the feeling of being a piece of meat that is being torn apart. Pearl embroidery hangs like drops of blood. A knitted outfit in mohair that has been manipulated into different deformations, and a matching top made bumpy to resemble fat. All in a color palette that, for me, reflects the inner body.

MEATMARKET

PROCESS

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