Fall of Doll

Fall of Doll is a five piece fashion collection that seeks to unravel the performance of femininity through auto-ethnographic and practice based research. In constructing textiles, garments, and adornment that aim to hyperbolize, shroud, and/or protect, Delfina engages in the act of unraveling the performance of femininity.

The inconsistent narratives surrounding Joan of Arc are patched together and integrated as a case study to uncover how the labels of disgust and gender imprint upon a ‘fragmented’ femininity. In constructing textiles, garments, and adornment that aim to hyperbolize, shroud, and/or protect, Delfina engages in the act of unraveling the performance of femininity. Leaning into detail oriented practices like beadwork, knitting, laser cutting, hand dying and hand sewing have allowed her to explore how dualistic performances of gender and identity can exist in tangible material forms.