SOFIA PISTILLO

VANAGLORIA

ANGELICA MONTINI STUDIOS

Woman in a white gown at a draped metallic banquet table

WHEN THE GAZE IS GONE

VANAGLORIA

Vanagloria explores the emptiness behind the need to be seen.

Beauty, status and appearance exist through the gaze of others, but what remains when that gaze disappears?

Woman lying in a foamy bathtubModel crouching in a knitted lace top by a window

The shooting translates vanity into a cold, minimal visual language: stripped-back spaces, distant figures and reflective surfaces create a world where beauty is still present, yet somehow deprived of meaning.

Distressed grey plaster textureLong draped table with dark fruit in a courtyard

ATMOSPHERE

The visual research moves between coldness, absence and restrained decadence. The environments feel suspended in time: distressed plaster, metallic surfaces, empty architecture and desaturated light.

Crumpled metallic foil textureClose-up of a face with smudged eye make-upModel in a white lace headscarf and tulle skirt

The imagery searches for a tension between luxury and emptiness, softness and metal, intimacy and distance.

Model in a long black slip dress and sunglasses

Faces are distant, tired and almost detached from their own beauty. Imperfect make-up, direct gazes and undone styling contrast with the elegance of ANGELICA MONTINI’ s pieces.

Model in black lace reclining on a metallic staircase