Daily dressing is corrupted by glamour, forms, and functions challenged, shifted from practical to aesthetic. Power can be found in pleasure with combinations of elements from this lexicon of glamour express command, even force. Strict suits are countered in their juxtaposition with lingerie
components; minaudières, mirrored compacts, purses, and bijoux – mechanisms of female self-representation are cross-bred with utilitarian fabrications in nylon and metal. Like functional tools a symbol of women, flowers are a recurrent motif in varied applications. The concept of the “fur coat” is exploded, imitated through shearling or fringe, its silhouette mirrored in padded nylon. Volume creates hourglass echoes of the eternal feminine, cinched at the waist. Colors are extreme,
fabrications surreal in their incongruity. Throughout, nevertheless, there is an innate, palpable reality – a sense of the indomitability of humanity, of nature, of the continuation of life. Clothing mirrors the pluralism and complexity of female identities – of women embodying multiple ideas of the ‘self’, simultaneously. They defy any simplistic categorization – they reflect the ever-fluctuating rapport of women with their own identities. Prada.