Public Fantasy unfolds in the cold glare of the city’s inbetween spaces: jewellery counters, dead storefront light, café plastic, washed concrete, the vague brutality of places built to be passed through. At the centre of it, she seems arranged by her own logic, masked, furred, striped, flowered, hooded, dressing with the certainty of instinct. The clothes do not feel imposed from the outside, but worn from within, as if each look were a point where inner life has surfaced and taken form. She inhabits the frame with a rough delicacy, carrying a private myth through public view as she moves through these emptied commercial scenes, feral, fragile, distant and magnetic. The fantasy never leaves reality behind; it settles over it, charging these incidental places with hunger, tenderness, oddness and nerve until the ordinary starts to pulse with atmosphere. Public Fantasy is the portrait of a character who turns nowhere into theatre by making the world around her answer to her own image.
Photography by Maksim Semionov
Styling by Daniil Tuzikas
Modelled by Varya Mazur
Words by Malena Ramprabhu
Top and necklace stylist’s own, earrings PANDORA, shorts BALENCIAGA
Dress ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, shawl NE-NET, shoes DRIES VAN NOTEN, necklace stylist’s own
Face mask JULIE KEGELS, jacket WOOLRICH
Dress ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, shoes DRIES VAN NOTEN
Shirt ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, pants COMME DES GARÇONS, shoes REPETTO
Face mask JULIE KEGELS, dress ZADIG & VOLTAIRE, necklace stylist’s own, boots DIRK BIKKEMBERG
Shirt ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, jeans HOOD BY AIR, shoes REPETTO
Face mask JULIE KEGELS, jacket WOOLRICH
