Distortion & Displacement

Academic Portfolio

2017-2018

This category emerges from an exploratory process where garments lose their conventional placement and function, resulting in unexpected, disjointed compositions. Rather than forcing disruption, these works allow it to surface intuitively—fragmenting, inverting, and rearranging elements to create hybrid structures that defy traditional sartorial logic. Pieces are flipped upside down, cut apart and reassembled, or multiplied, resulting in garments that challenge familiar notions of symmetry, coherence, and wearability.

The outcome exists in a space of tension, neither fully organic nor entirely calculated. Garments shift, collide, and distort—some evoking fluid transformation, while others appear abrupt and almost violent in their misalignment. Like the fragmented, inverted figures in Georg Baselitz’s paintings, these pieces challenge perception, distorting proportions and subverting expectations of how clothing relates to the body.

While this section embraces abstraction and experimental construction, it also considers how distortion can engage with commercial viability. Deconstructed silhouettes may deviate from traditional fashion archetypes, yet they maintain a dialogue with the body, ensuring transformation does not entirely compromise functionality. The approach negotiates the balance between avant-garde aesthetics and wearability, proposing forms that feel simultaneously radical and grounded, familiar and unfamiliar.

Challenging traditional silhouettes by shifting, deforming, and reconfiguring elements.