24/05/2026
London felt like a long conversation with all the things that keep inspiring me. 🇬🇧
I went mainly to see the Schiaparelli exhibition - someone I consider a huge muse. The freedom, wit and surreal intelligence with which Elsa Schiaparelli used fashion still feels radically contemporary. She treated clothing not simply as design, but as a language for humor, provocation and imagination at a time when almost nobody else did.
But as always in London, inspiration kept appearing everywhere I turned.
I saw the Tracey Emin show at Tate Modern, raw and painfully intimate, and at Photo London I stumbled upon Mark Duffy’s A Parliament of Empty Gestures - a body of work reflecting on power, performance and the repetition of political gestures. Unsurprisingly, I was immediately drawn to the recurring hand motifs, these symbolic fragments of communication, authority and vulnerability.
It reminded me again how much I’m inspired by gestures, symbols, and the strange emotional weight objects and bodies can carry.