When I started my research, the first thing that came to my mind were those Frida Kahlo self-portraits. They always intrigued me because she always transmitted so much emotion through her paintings and the way she looked at me (oh well I like to pretend she was looking at me) every time I looked at her was so intense and full of emotion. So I went further into this research looking at other painters and their selfportraits trying to understand what they wanted to say with a simple portrait. The fact is that I never thought that this research, that began in this particular way, could become something much more open and much more related to fashion itself. This magazine is the product of my opinion, of what I gathered from my books and from the painting’s analysis but put into a contemporary context.
SELFIE is a girl. A girl who likes to take pictures of herself, to show herself to the world and to pretend she is someone she is not. In a way, she is weird. She wears this pink wig and she has this thing with eyes, her eyes. What she is trying to say no one knows because everything happens in a glimpse of a moment, she takes the picture and then she’s gone to be someone else and take another picture and it goes on and on and on‌
Painters painted themselves in a determined moment because they were feeling something or just because they wanted to. Their portraits remained forever, their feelings stayed forever in those paintings but they moved on. They became different people, their way of painting changed. Their way of seeing the world too. SELFIE is just like them but the only difference is that she has an Iphone camera. Isn’t this the way fashion works too? Fashion is about moments. A trend is a moment; a portrait of what is ‘super in’ right now. And then everything is gone. Another trend appears, another portrait, another way of seeing and interpreting things.
SELFIE struggles to find herself. We are all like her. Sometimes we scream, we cry, we try to understand what is going on inside of our bodies. Then another day comes; we take a picture of ourselves. We post it on Instagram, people like it. We begin to love ourselves again. There you go, another self-portrait of the contemporary world.