SO OBSESSED - graduation collection Gerrit Rietveld Academie

ThIs collection all started from need to research the power of diva worshipping in queer community. So i asked myself: Why are we SO OBSESSED? For me, while growing up queer in a dominant heternormative culture, worshipping divas was my escape. The strong diva image offered me a place to be me. In return, this collection brings these diva fantasies back to life, while it reclaims and “campifies” the heteronormative vocabulary I was escaping from. Here, rejection of function, excess and controversy become the tools to challenge gendered stereotypes and create a new diva reality. One that puts no limits to what you can and should be. So why say diva like it’s a bad thing? Just play a diva track, put on your tiniest thong and highest heels and get ready to be SO OBSESSED!