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fashion research.




VISUAL RESEARCH BLOG - The Archive.
Worldwide, on-going.

This research isn’t just about what I saw; but about what stayed in me. This blog serves as a digital bitácora of the images and ideas that have left a permanent mark on my creative DNA. I view these entries as "traces" have shaped over time my specific aesthetic identity. Rather than a static gallery, this page is a live archive. It’s a deliberate experiment in action, designed to shift and expand as I evolve. Think of it as a raw map of the references, fetishes, and obsessions that define my point of view.





ACADEMIC PAPER - L’Estetica dell’errore.
Milan, Italy, 2025.

This research is my manifesto against the "glossy" aesthetic. I dive into the crisis of authenticity within our saturated digital landscape, exploring how the obsession with flawless, hyper-curated imagery has stripped fashion and art of its "aura". By investigating glitches, visible process marks, and unconventional compositions, I propose a new visual language where the "error" becomes the punctum, that singular detail that finally makes us feel something real again.




VISUAL RESEARCH - The Extreme Self.
Milan, Italy, 2025.

This research is an exploration of the "Extreme Self" the internal friction between how we inhabit our own skin and how we are consumed by the external gaze. It is a visual inquiry into the contradiction of modern identity: a facade of stability and power that masks an inner landscape of anxiety and emotional fragility. Through this research I deconstructed the versions of myself that I perform for the world. Using the puppet as a symbol of an ego shaped by societal pressure and the suit as a restrictive cage rather than a garment of strength, this project visualizes the weight of meeting expectations. It is a study on distortion and the "shadow self," where the human form is manipulated to reveal the invisible tension of trying to remain authentic in a world that only rewards the curated image.





ACADEMIC PAPER - Turismo de Clase.
Barcelona, Spain, 2024.

This research explores the complex phenomenon of "class tourism" within the fashion industry where high-end brands "cosplay" poverty, turning the aesthetics of necessity into a trend. This paper is an investigation into the blurred lines between appreciation and appropriation, and how the fashion system re-contextualizes objects to strip them of their original social weight. It is a study on the resignification of the mundane: where the "dirty" becomes "clean" through a luxury lens, and where the struggle of one class becomes the fetish of another.




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