"Bella figura" is an Italian phrase that literally translates to "beautiful figure," but means to make a good impression

This collection explores the tension between beauty and reality — how society shapes our ideals, how culture defines what is “acceptable,” and how artistry pushes against those borders.

Rooted in Italian sensibility, where beauty is a language of its own, the garments celebrate craft as both preservation and progression.

Each piece carries the hand of the maker — patterns drawn, sewn, and refined — as an act of resistance against disposability.

As both stylist and designer, I exist in duality: between presentation and creation, fantasy and function. My work lives in those in-between spaces — the pockets of utopia — where everything looks perfect, but isn’t.

These are clothes that appear serene and composed, yet their presence challenges belonging. They ask where beauty is allowed, and where it isn’t.

The role of the artist is to present iterations of reality so that we may see ourselves more clearly — not to escape, but to choose how we move through it.