In Between was my way of stepping into someone else’s dream, specifically, the dreams of surrealist painters. I’ve always been fascinated by surrealism, especially how these artists blended reality with impossibility. They painted what couldn’t happen, but what they wished or imagined could. Their work was a doorway into their subconscious, and with this editorial, I wanted to walk through that door.
The idea was to take these dreamlike, otherworldly elements, clouds in a room, melting clocks, floating figures, and instead of painting them, style them into reality. What if we reinterpreted their surrealist visions in a modern, fashion oriented way? Could I take the spirit of those paintings and reimagine them through clothing, hair, makeup, and set design? That’s what In Between is about, being in between dream and reality, art and fashion, past and future. It’s not about copying a surrealist painting frame- by-frame, but rather about translating the feeling behind them into something tactile and alive.
Styling and Direction: I was really intentional with every detail, from the styling to the makeup to the atmosphere. I wanted this editorial to feel like we were slipping into a dream that could exist, even if it shouldn’t. The models are styled in a way that’s high fashion, yet just a bit off, bleached brows, otherworldly silhouettes, abstract hair textures. These aren’t literal recreations of paintings, but they’re visual echoes. They hint at Magritte, Dali, and other artists without mimicking them.
The clothes, too, were chosen with that surreal contrast in mind, fluid fabrics that move like a hallucination, structural pieces that feel like sculptures, unexpected color palettes that jolt the eye. I wanted each look to make the viewer wonder: Is this a dream? Or am I awake in someone else’s imagination? The title In Between speaks to the liminality of it all, between eras, between art forms, between realities. It’s a visual meditation on what it means to exist not in one world, but in the space between two. This editorial is as much about the surrealists’ dreams as it is about my own. It’s their imagination filtered through mine, fashion as a medium for storytelling, for bending logic, for living inside art.
