university of technology sydney

Australia

Gisella Candi

Wide Angle Smile

With a mission to make fashion that blurs traditional archetypes and binaries and moves to an increasingly inclusive space, Wide Angle Smile focuses on ‘deviant dress’. The collection explores the volatile relationship between the insider and the outsider and perceptions of right and wrong. It uses off-kilter prints and odd silhouettes to explore the feelings and experiences of growing up in a society that rewards convention and passivity, rather than originality, passion and individuality. All the fabric was developed and screen printed and all knits were made on a domestic knitting machine. This collection is bold, textural, destructive and an expression of those who may not fit into the ideas of the reigning hegemony but unite through the similarities within their differences.