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Celebrating the Grotesque!
This collection challenges conventional ideals of beauty by embracing the weird, the odd, and the unconventional. Inspired by Victor Hugo’s notion that “ugliness is hidden behind the sublime,” the collection explores how distortion and deviation can transform into new forms of elegance, revealing the deeper spectrum of aesthetic experience.


Research
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Inspiration
Inspired by uncanny portraits, poetic cinema, and folkloric grotesque, Celebrating the Grotesque weaves together the beautiful and the bizarre—revealing how distortion itself can become a form of elegance.




Dark tones and burning reds evoke drama, tension, and renewal.

Dark tones and burning reds evoke drama, tension, and renewal.




Design Development
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Sketches



Victor Hugo once said: "Ugliness is next to beauty, deformity is close to beauty, ugliness is hidden behind the sublime, and beauty and evil coexist."

