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The NewWoman

CREATIVEBiography

Kyla Reynolds is a Sydney based multi-disciplinary creative with skills spanning from photography, styling, graphic design, creative direction, and illustration. Kyla has completed her Bachelor of Design at Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia, where she specialized in creative direction and styling. Through her works as a designer, her objective is to inspire, encourage and evoke passion to an audience as well as showcase the coexistence of all art mediums, history, and nature. Kyla is highly influenced by natural landscapes, textures, European fashion, and history. She aims to create designs unique to the existing field through exploring the human condition while involving external world elements of nature, science, and the past societies that lived before us, to harmonise all these elements into one entity to tell a story to viewers. Kyla’s skills in photography spans across many mediums, including fashion, product, lifestyle and beauty photography.

CONCEPTStatement

“The New Woman” is a Fashion media story that encapsulates femininity through Victorian inspired clothing. The title stems from the reference of feminists in the Victorian era. It explores the coexistence between militant and ethereal concepts within the realm of femininity taking inspiration from militant references of the Women Suffrage movement, in contrast to the ethereal depiction of women within the Pre-Raphaelite arts. The Victorian era was rich in pivotal history that helped gain women equality, education, and political rights to which is now known as the norm today. The fashion story representing aspects of Victorian styling in a modern-day context pays homage to the women before us who have paved the slow but sure path to freedom and equality. The natural landscapes seen throughout reinforce the notion of freedom and further connects the reference to Victorian art, seeing that nature was a common art depiction throughout in this time.

The elements of nature further reflect the textures seen throughout the fashion garments used. The garments used throughout this Magazine show dramatic silhouette’s, layered textures, and ruffles, all of which combine to create captivating shapes and bold statements while taking inspiration from the elements of fashion in the Victorian period and implementing them in a modern context. This photographic story was made to evoke a narrative through clothing and contect, evoking feelings of history and freedom. It targets women of all walks of life and encourages women to explore their fluid femininity.