"Yes, I was thinking: we live without a future. That's what's queer ..." - Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
The concept of a "wish-landscape" represents an imaginative space where hopes, dreams, and desires converge to challenge established norms and reimagine reality. It embraces José Muñoz’s queer aesthetics and temporality, rejecting rigid natural orders to celebrate the transformative potential of the present. Rooted in utopian thinking, this landscape disrupts linear perceptions of time, fostering possibilities for diversity, freedom, and individuality. By focusing on the fluidity of the moment, it becomes a site for creativity and radical potential, offering an escape from the limitations of reality.
This collection intertwines the wish-landscape with mythopoetic categories and artistic inspiration drawn from uniforms, Andy Warhol's early hand-drawings, and camouflage—interpreted here as an artistic approximation of nature. By deconstructing traditional military, white-collar, and workers' uniforms with soft silks and transgender bodies, the designs evolve into unique garments that resemble untold stories or unregistered poems. These creations, steeped in the fluid and transformative nature of queer aesthetics, embody the utopian potential of the wish-landscape, celebrating individuality and reimagining reality.