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The Failed Lemon

October-December 2017

In this project I was inspired by fruits and vegetables which had been distorted and were unusual. As they are not marketable we do not come upon them and they are thrown into the garbage. From a nutrition point of view they are not lacking, they are just not aesthetic. We live in a world where the desire to enhance reality in order to become more desirable creating a distortion of the truth. The connection between the perfect woman of the 1950's appears trivial to me. They represent a distorted culture, artificial and beautified with no place for the less than perfect. I also took inspiration from Pop Art, which began to grow at the end of that period. A culture, which represents only that which is beautiful in the public's eyes, of the those who duplicate, spread and flatten it. In the framework of the project I designed two dresses - one commercial and the second as ‘out of the ordinary’, a dress that proves that the distorted is no less beautiful than the perfect. ‘Out of the ordinary’ can be interesting, creative, genuine and unique and has a big place in our world.  

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