#environmental-critique

#environmental-critique

Introducing Marla Jobst, a fashion designer and student at the Fashion Design Institute in Düsseldorf. Her work explores the space between reality and imagination, where emotions take form and the unseen becomes tangible. Photography by Frank Lünenschlos. The model and makeup artist is Emilie Fantine Horst. With her latest piece piece "Reclaiming Venus", she reimagines nature through the silhouette of Venus, veiled in human excess yet radiating both fragility and power.

When a virulent material enters an ecosystem, it can wreak havoc on existing life. Bittersweet vines in Upstate New York, for example, were brought to the region in the second half of the 19th century to combat erosion and for their sinuous, woody beauty. Native to eastern Asia, these largely poisonous plants quickly became invasive, smothering other specimens and even uprooting trees.