Title

Pesta – The Petri Dish Shatters (Disease en Vogue)

Creator

Kaffe, Despoina

Abstract

Putrid, suppurative, inflamed, diseased…

To me, the bubonic plague dresses fashionably in a little black dress, a mortal nod to Coco; tuberculosis is wispy, ethereal, pallid; and syphilis dons couture, sickly ostentatious. Each sports its history, its iconography, its oeuvre one might say.

Pesta, the fashion collection, corporealizes the imponderabilia of disease in 9 distinct looks, suffused in their motifs and literature and egregious beauty.

Keywords

fashion sketch

disease

history

Subject

interdisciplinary

Date Available

June 11, 2024

Type

Physical sketchbook

Course

HSE 2210 The White Rider: The Nature & Character of Infectious Disease in Society

Course Offering Term

Summer Term 2023

Instructor

Valahas, Michael

Session

Honors Creative Projects

Location

Student Lounge

Event

Year 2024 | 8th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium