MALINAO

Inspired by Bettina Rheims and her perception of Beauty, Nude, Women and deconstructed-Glamour, i hit on her paralleles towards Egon Schiele.

Especially her book “heroines” fascinated.

Skin, light, deconstructed haute couture clothes.The skin of women who have been scratched, mistreated and loved, loved too much.In fact women who are very real.

This vision of done and undone, shaped and worn was the origin of my first idea, i wanted to transport the feeling of used and beauty in the same way.

I chose Silk, for feeling the sensual Quality on naked skin and old lace which i found on a fleamarket and treated it, so it can symbiose with the skin.

The nude fabrics are always with a snatchy surface, like the unperfect epidermis of skin.

My intention was to create clothes which assimilate with the skin an take this feeling of staged as, but also have an sensual and erotic character, to reflect the selfconfidence and sureness of your own female sexuality.

My special focus were on details, like lining with treatment of fabric.
Also a constant detail is the original letter of maria stuart one day before her execution,
which is full of selfconfidence and female sensuality and shows a strenght, only a woman can have.

The aim of the DOB collection “heroine..” is to show the ambigouos, to ask the Norm, the male Voyerismus and even to play with the femal identy, to use the female identy, without taken it as pure sexualobjektion.

You are all that, queen, whore and heroine....