Cirque is a fashion editorial that draws upon the deep-rooted history of the circus, a spectacle that has long danced on the edge of the mystical and the grotesque. In this series, six characters emerge as symbolic figures from a forgotten carnival, reimagined for a modern audience: the Fortune Teller, the Acrobat, the Bird Man, the Jester, the Identical Twins, and the Clown. Each embodies archetypes woven into the collective unconscious—characters who have dazzled and unsettled across centuries.

This editorial is not merely an homage to the circus as entertainment, but a metaphor for the human condition itself. The circus has always been a place of wonder and oddity, a realm where the extraordinary mingles with the bizarre, where society’s outcasts find center stage. In Cirque, the characters are transformed through elaborate set design, make-up, hair, and fashion styling, capturing the surreal beauty and eerie melancholy that defines the liminal space between reality and fantasy.

The Fortune Teller becomes an oracle of fate, seeing beyond time; the Acrobat, with her elegant and flexible movements, reflects the fragility of human ambition and the quest for transcendence. The Bird Man, halfhuman, half-creature, is a figure caught between two worlds. The Jester laughs at life’s absurdity, while the Identical Twins, mirror images of one another, symbolize duality and the illusions of identity. The Clown, both tragic and comedic, is a reminder of the thin line between joy and sorrow.

Through different visual practices, Cirque conjures a world that exists outside the linear constraints of time, a dreamscape where these characters live on in eternal performance. It is an ethereal, otherworldly universe—a circus of the soul, where fashion becomes the medium for telling timeless human stories through surreal, captivating imagery.