Vanity

Editorial fashion image featuring a model wearing a three-piece with exaggerated proportions against a neutral backdrop.

Look 1: Vain. Black wool suiting three-piece with bugle-bead piping detail.

Close-up of the back of the model featuring an open back top with high collar and elongated fitted sleeves.

Look 1: Vain. Back view of the look with broken beaded-mirror detail.

Model wearing an avant-garde ensemble made with bugle-bead embellishment, featuring an exaggerated sculptural silhouette.

Look 1: Vain. Silhouette details.

Model wearing a structured tailored jacket paired with a skirt featuring godet panels and flowing chiffon overlay, creating contrast between sharp construction and soft movement, charcoal and rose.

Look 2: Obsession. Side view of the look with godet detail.

Front view of a fashion design featuring a structured jacket paired with a full-length fitted skirt displaying a screen-printed portrait, accented with exposed bra-inspired detailing for a bold editorial look.

Look 2: Obsession. Screen-printed self-portrait satin skirt with beaded detail and chiffon overlay.

This collection explores how beauty, once pure and aspirational, becomes distorted through obsession and self-destruction. It’s a personal reflection disguised in fabric. An attempt to turn the mirror back on myself and, maybe, on everyone who looks at it.

Credits

Photographer: Lorena Bezerra
Model: Kayla Zhang

Project Video

Brenda Mendonca

Brazil

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