Job description: "Anything can happen, I can cut it off with a pair of scissors," artist and fashion designer Michaela Stark held the "Stark Naked" at the 3537 Cultural Center of Dover Street Market in Paris before December 19 "I joked before the exhibition.
But the focus of her two-week show was not to see the Australian living in Paris squeeze herself into a sample-sized corset in a replica of her bedroom, or even from Jean Paul Gautí in the performance. The unfinished tissue slices borrowed from Jean Paul Gaultier's archives during her vernissage on December 7.
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It is not her fragile design, pressed between the plexiglass sheets and hung in front of the window to attract people's attention to its complex texture and asymmetrical shape.
What she really shows is the quasi-graphic image. She reshaped the faceless model through the corset created in collaboration with the Norwegian photographer Sølve Sundsbø in London, questioning the norms of beauty.
Stark graduated from Queensland University of Technology in Australia in 2016 and moved to Europe to pursue a fashion career, working for fashion brands such as Marine Serre, and as a fashion designer for celebrities and advertising campaigns. In Beyoncé's 2020 movie "Black is King", you can see the complete denim look, with corsets and extra-long jeans spread on the ground.
After a year of residency at the Sarabande Foundation established by the late Lee Alexander McQueen in London, Stark returned to Paris and began experimenting with making clothes And shape her body into extreme shapes, because she has long been fascinated by certain parts of her clothes. The body is usually hidden, either unloved or considered unsightly.
Courtesy of Sølve Sundsbø/Michaela Stark
In each picture, when the body is squeezed into place by Stark's design, the abdomen, sunken skin and hair all reach the point of surrealism. Despite the experimental shape of her work, she insists that she will not be classified as "a person who makes conceptual fashion without knowing how to execute it", which she said is a misunderstanding of many London designers.
Stark described the field she explored as being somewhere between "beauty and grotesque", and she believes that this complete rejection of the still popular aesthetics of smooth limbs and artificial skin conditioning is an empowerment.
"For some reason, it feels like the waist is so small, the fat comes out, the body is completely transferred and liberated. [On the one hand,] This is to celebrate the part of your body that you feel insecure or want to hide. It's not that you are naked, on the other hand. Watching Netflix while eating pizza in bed," she said.
Although her work is purely analog, she sees similarities with the digital world. "People often see my work as physical positivity, as [show] a natural body, but none of it is actually a natural body," she said, comparing the distortion of the sculpture to the extreme contour trends or digital retouching seen on social media .
"I think they have a kind of beauty in real life that may disappear on the Internet," her work gathered more than 100,000 followers there, "because everyone is changing their body and face. There, any Anyone can make any clothes look special," she said.
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