Victorian Sci-Fi Surgery
Gabriella Marina Gonzalez / Victorian Sci – Fi Surgery
From the collection’s press release :
Her current work was inspired by exploring feelings of emotional restrain and uncertainty about her position in time. She uses escapism to create a subconscious reality where time has no bouncdaries and she can bounce from past tofuture to collect data in an attempt to discover her purpose in the present. This is where she developed her designs for the current collection.
The collection mixes periods and materials to create a historical camouflage making it difficult to associate with a particular period in documented time. This allows her to jump from era to era collection dataunnoticed in hopes of one day understanding the world, human nature and herself.
The collection was entirely handmade with her own hands in a long and meditative state adding a personal and emotional connection to each individual piece. She believes this transfers a bit of her aura to the pice in hope that the glow will shine acting like a light house of hope to lost and weary roamers so that they will know they are not alone.
The collection consists mostly of brown and cream leathers, bronze fixtures and old stamps which gives the appearance of being made from reminisce of an abandoned Victorian house. The T-shirt imagery is representative of a nameless ghost who explores the timeless subconscious world as people run with fear of the unknown. The platform shoes are a tool for the explorer. Their towering heights create a pedestal from which she can look over crowded, infinite seas of people trying to stay afloat while searching for answers on this busy planet.
April 6th, 2010 at 7:20 AM
Some pieces(like #5 from the bottom,the glasses)are fuckin awesome but most of it reminds me of steampunk & omg i hate the steampunk.
April 6th, 2010 at 8:04 AM
Some of it is cool and innovative. Some is just lame and telephoned in. I hope their next set of designs has more consistency.
April 6th, 2010 at 9:12 AM
I adore, admire, and crave to own this collection. The inspiration is quite interesting, something we can all relate to, though the degrees and dimensions are unique to each individual. It’s very interesting to see your angle on a couture level.
April 6th, 2010 at 10:32 AM
“…can bounce from past tofuture to collect data…”
Here comes the “tofuture”! Everything will be made of tofu, natch.
April 6th, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Neat work, but I fail to see the Victorian aspect of this. It’s like the retrofuturist-sans-Victorian style that seems to pregnate the steampunk communities at present.
April 6th, 2010 at 11:46 AM
That’s an awful lot of talk for not a lot of product.
April 6th, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Not a fan. It seems costumey and under-imagined.
April 6th, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Well, while it may not be my cuppa – those shoes are something else! And the glovelets are kinda interesting too…
April 6th, 2010 at 9:53 PM
those are some serious shoes…
April 7th, 2010 at 9:26 PM
I agree with Stew on this. Some hits, some misses. The pompous windbaggery of a collection description bothers me more than the misses, though.
April 8th, 2010 at 2:29 PM
I totally agree that it’s too much “pompous windbaggery” (nice, Sally!) for not much action – but some of those images are oh-so-lovely!
April 11th, 2010 at 9:44 AM
I love the shoes, but I think the description is what turned me off of it…I’m a pretentious teenager and even that was too much pretentious for me.
But the SHOOZ. THA SHOOZ!
April 12th, 2010 at 11:49 AM
The shoes are by the lovely Natacha Marro.
December 3rd, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Sci-Fi is the best, i love sci-fi movies, books and stuffs like that. I am a man of science that is why i love it :~-
July 29th, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Awesome story once again. Thumbs up;)