STAI DRITTA!
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The collection was born in 2022 from a photograph of a small chair on the Berlin subway and from the decomposition of its elements: a backrest covered in printed carpet-like fabric, a plastic base. The patterns make “beautiful” what would otherwise be purely functional. The theory of beauty can be applied to everything, so why not use it to give value to an orthopedic tool such as a brace?I had to wear a brace for scoliosis since middle school and I hated it—I always tried to hide and disguise it. I was told too many times to “stay straight!”, and so all these elements came together. An orthopedic brace, different for each body, carries as its second skin a subway pattern from a European capital (Berlin, Paris, and London), no longer hidden but on display.The plastic corset thus becomes the protagonist in a grotesque simulation of dysmorphism, an alteration present to varying degrees in all bodies seated on public transport chairs.