by Jen
Earlier this year, I had the chance to stay in a beautiful Toscanian town, Florence, for three months (from January until April), due to my postgraduate studies in Luxury Brand Management. During that time, a participation in a very cool “Monster Project” was offered to me. It was an offer I could not possibly decline! Few lovely girls enrolled in the Fashion Stylist Master program at Polimoda were also taking part.
When the girls explained their creative ideas to me, I instantly started looking forward to the project, because I knew it would turn out to be fun. In addition, at that time I was very keen to try something new out!
The task assigned to us was to create a monster each, which was supposed to be related to the country and indentity they were coming from. There were 4 different kinds of monsters in total; from the United States, Mexico, China and Italy.
Have a look how the results turned out:
Snowy Zhang (China)
Snowy wanted to create a sexy woman with a cold heart who turned into a monster after she had killed the most beautiful woman, who she stripped the skin off and dressed herself in it. The monster kills every man she encounters, brings them to her house, kills them, drinks their blood and eats their bones. At dawn the ritual starts all over again.
Inspiration taken from Chinese movie – Painted Skin (2008)
Robotic/Futuristic Woman by Rachel Hamler (United States)
According to Rachel, the US is about progress and moving forward. For that reason, she created a monster that signifies a move towards the future. The robotic woman stands for unity between people and technology.
La Catrina by Ximena Gonzalez (Mexico)
La Catrina represents Mexican death in a funny and characteristic way and has become an icon of the Mexican Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). It’s a tradition to set up a colorful altar full of everything for this particular day, as you can see from the photos. This Catrina was mainly inspired by Mexican famous artist Diego Rivera (also famous for being the life partner of Frida Kahlo).
Claudia Navarra (Italy/Belgium)
Praying Mantis
4 Comments
phillsB
November 27, 2013 at 3:28 PMSTUNNING photos 😉
desjen
November 27, 2013 at 7:10 PMThank you Phillsb! 🙂
melisa
November 27, 2013 at 9:48 AMWell done, Jen, very well done. Great costumes and even better pictures!
desjen
November 27, 2013 at 7:09 PMThank you Melisa! 🙂