Motioning Silhouettes
My work explores the boundaries between body, identity, and space. My interest in fashion began in childhood and evolved into independent explorations focused on timeless design, sustainability, and modularity. Under The Blacklist, I developed my first capsule collection and concept store, creating a space where contrasting cultural worlds, underground and elite, meet and transform each other. My approach draws on my experience in both academic and independent settings, aiming to challenge conventions and open new dialogues between disciplines. I built the vision for my first capsule collection around the concept of the little black dress: a timeless icon reimagined through modularity, elegance, and versatility. For me, The Blacklist means elegance but also practicality, modernity but also classicism, fragility but also intimidation: a meeting of all these opposites. My first capsule collection serves as a foundation for the spatial investigation in this proposal.
Silhouettes in Motion is a spatial and cultural investigation of contemporary identity, conceived as the setting for my first capsule collection and the launch of The Blacklist: a fashion brand rooted in the emotional and architectural language of body shapes and silhouettes. Set within the shell of a historic textile factory, the project explores the collision between underground culture and elite sensibilities, where the body becomes a performative agent and the built environment reflects shifting self-perceptions.
The space is conceived as a liminal zone: a stage, a veil, a mirror.
Fractured glass, stainless steel, and broken surfaces create tensions between visibility and distortion, desire and vandalism. The space moves...literally, through retractable curtains and modular layouts, and symbolically, tracing how we navigate identity in public and private spheres.
In a moment when belonging, exposure, and transformation define social experience, this project proposes architecture not as shelter or monument, but as an interface of cultural and emotional politics.
It moves beyond a fixed physical space: it’s a system of thresholds where individuals confront and shape how they are seen. While grounded in technical rigor, the work was shaped outside of institutional rhythms, evolving through independent development and deeper questioning.