Milk, Blood & Lipstick
Graduate Collection
Milk, Blood & Lipstick draws inspiration from the complex, often contradictory portrayals of femininity in horror and erotic cinema. Influenced by Barbara Creed’s psychoanalysis of the horror genre in ‘The Monstrous Feminine’ and films such as The Devils, Carrie, and Immoral Tales, the collection explores themes of sexuality, hysteria, and female rebellion. It also references the visual language of vintage pornography and lingerie, recontextualising their aesthetics through sporty silhouettes suggesting bodies empowered, adorned and yet constrained. The ‘final girl’ trope - blonde, bloodied, and surviving - becomes a central figure, symbolising both vulnerability and strength. In this palette of innocence and confrontation, femininity is rendered defiant.
