A Head for Fashion by Anna Halldin-Maule

You won’t believe me when I tell you this, but these are paintings. These oil-on-canvas pieces are based on photographs taken by Anna Halldin-Maule.

I find the imagery extremely provocative; the paintings seem to imply that the explicitly sexual nature of high-fashion can at times brand us, as seen in one of the pieces of a woman crying, with high-end designer names sprawled across her naked body. Another hard hitting image, of a naked woman with her head completely encompassed in a Louis Vuitton, perhaps lending itself to the idea that our minds have been tken over by materialistic thoughts and desires…

I may be looking too far into these pieces, but nevertheless, they evoke a certain allure that I couldn’t pass up…