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Wild Tenderness -2025

Analogue Photography


In this series, the garments become a site where strength and vulnerability coexist. Inspired by the mythology of the cowboy and the skeletal structures that shape the body, the designs reveal a dual identity: hard, architectural frameworks paired with delicate lace surfaces, a tension between masculinity and softness.

Rather than reconstructing a literal Western landscape, the images assemble a symbolic world—one where nature, animality, and intimacy drift in and out of the frame. Reeds appear in an interior space like displaced remnants of an imagined outdoors. A young leopard enters as a living contradiction: untamed yet gentle, wild yet tender, mirroring the garments’ hybrid spirit. The black rose functions in a similar register, a flower that holds both danger and fragility in a single gesture.

Subtle visual cues extend the design language: a thin, yellow-tipped cigarette; a haze that recalls quiet moments of rest; gestures that oscillate between defiance and introspection. Each element echoes the clothing without illustrating it, allowing the image to become a space where identities are negotiated rather than defined.

The series is ultimately a study of a body suspended between worlds—between toughness and vulnerability, structure and softness, myth and intimacy. It is a portrait of a new cowboy: one who carries both the wildness of the frontier and the quiet lyricism of lace.



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