-LouLou

I want to be exactly the person I am in my head. I centered this portfolio around liberation from yourself. We cage ourselves in our own expectations, not because of what others say but because of what we hope to be. 

When creating, small moments like the first time you laugh to moments in adult hood should be shown. It’s an extension of yourself. You should be able to see the blood and soul in every part.

For my look pages I wanted to assemble each one with little pieces of emotions and feelings to make them as real and tangible as possible. Through this, I wanted to catalog how it felt when creating those looks. I sourced garments for the first and second looks and then created a corset for my third. The first two both represented insecurities of mine, of never being enough of the person that I think I am and being too much of a person I dont like being. A corset being a literal cage, I wanted to repurpose it as something to speak as loud as you can, not for you. I wanted the corset to fall undereath menswear because I believe that what has been lacking in, at least from eyes, is precision and sensuality in menswear. I dont really ever see that and it seems as though men are incredibly allergic from being themselves. An idea I find myself falling victim to a lot.