About Me
Hi, I’m Bianca, a Fashion Editor and Visual Artist
Bianca Costantino Muniz is a Fashion Editor and Visual Artist who focuses on translating the phenomena that make up the fashion system, to make them accessible by offering a reading key. She works with an analytical approach, observing and studying reality, to build narratives through articles, exhibitions, and books. Her working method is built on discipline.
Social and cultural phenomena are the basis on which I build my narratives. The method of study that I apply when I carry out research starts from listening and reflection, synthesizing the parts that make up the subject in its founding components. I prefer an investigation that goes in depth, reconstructing the origin and evolution of the phenomenon and always giving value to all the fields with which fashion is intertwined, such as art, design, cinema and literature. I enjoy publishing and exhibitions due to their formats that allow, with multiple tools, to tell at large an object of study.
INSPIRATION
Building Narratives: I concretize my research envisioning its applications in my projects.
I come from a classical and humanistic education, and I have an interdisciplinary vision. It inspires me to study the history and heritage that build an identity and investigate the archives to know in depth a story on which to design a project. My creative journey is built on two paths that meet each other: I represent reality through an imaginary and a personal language, relating what is tangible to the intangible. I developed my aesthetic on topics such as the concept of ritual, care, and matriarchy.
Fashion is a form of self-expression, an identifying element of an era and a constitutive language of identity. Knowing its grammar allows us to anticipate and explain the changes of the present, as well as the needs of the human being. This is why I am fascinated by the concept of "uniform dressing" and how clothing allows to emerge as an individual and to identify within a group. I have a passion for collecting and clusters of people linked by a common style or a “cult” towards a brand or a designer.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
“Ghostly Body” Sketchbook
“Ghostly Body” Sketchbook
“Craved Body” Sketchbook
“Sacred Body” Sketchbook
“Animal Body” Sketchbook
“Plant Body” Sketchbook
“Plant Body” Sketchbook
“Intreccio” Photo Book
“Intreccio” Photo Book
“Intreccio” Photo Book
Myths and Beliefs: Tim Walker Exhibition Catalogue
Myths and Beliefs: Tim Walker Exhibition Catalogue
“Metamorphosis” Editorial
“Metamorphosis” Editorial
“Metamorphosis” Editorial
“Metamorphosis” Editorial
“Metamorphosis” Editorial
“How much we are tired of trends” Rivista Studio
“How much we are tired of trends” Rivista Studio
DETAIL
In my article published in Rivista Studio I wrote about uniform dressing and the end of micro-trends
To keep up with TikTok’s trend-cores, people resort to products from fast fashion, but trends change fast, and this makes the mechanism unsustainable economically and environmentally. On the contrary, the uniform dressing allows to develop a long-term personal style. People who adopted this style choose a practical approach to clothing or see their uniform as a tool of self-expression. To demonstrate objectively the grip of this phenomenon, I indicated a series of digital creators who have addressed the theme of uniform dressing, such as stylist Allison Bornstein who proposed the "Three Words Method" or the system "Trendy or Timeless" to define your style consciously. Mandy Lee’s interpretation highlights the social tendency to seek an identifying style. The meaning of the uniform dressing lies in the security it gives us when we wear the clothes of which we know the meaning transmitted. The article concludes with a reflection on how uniform dressing risks to become a phase within the cycle of trends.
My goal is to give an overview of the Fashion System by relating to the multiple aspects of it.
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