GROTESQUERIE by Maicol Ierardi for Glami Inside Fashion

Stylist: Alessia Ghilini @alessiaghilini - Elisabetta Pazzi @elisabettapazzii - Federica Afeltra @federica_1837 - Francesca Licenziato @fra.lice
Dress: @sara_prattichizzo @uedpescara Bustier: @fra.lice Skirt: @leoantonellaa @uedpescara Gloves: H&M

Romanticism is taken and pushed to collapse. What historically embodied grace, purity, and privilege transforms into excess, constraint, instability. Marie Antoinette and the Victorian imaginary do not survive as icons, but as ruins: aesthetic systems that have constructed, disciplined, and consumed the female body. The female figure is not celebrated—it is exposed. Young, fragile, overloaded. Dressed to the point of losing balance. Luxury weighs, oppresses, becomes a structure of control. Corsets, lace, bows, and historical layering cease to seduce: they compress, deform, and rigidify the body. Elegance fractures, becomes stained, unstable. Punk enters as sabotage. Not as style, but as a violent and necessary gesture. It distorts proportions, destroys symmetry, rejects the idea of controlled beauty.

The 19th-century imaginary, tied to decorum and rigidity, is forced into excess, reactivated in a grotesque, antagonistic, physical key. Nothing is nostalgic. Everything is intensified. White loses all innocence. It becomes friction, visual noise, provocation. Garments turn into invasive architectures—extreme volumes that occupy space and impose presence. They do not envelop the body; they put it under pressure. Fragility is not delicacy—it is exposure. It is tension. The grotesque is not ornament—it is a stance. Beauty emerges from fracture, from dissonance, from excess pushed to its limit. The sublime is not harmony—it is distortion Luxury and decay coexist in an unstable balance, while refusal becomes a visual language. The past is violently rewritten to speak about the present: control, identity, the construction of the female body. Fashion ceases to be decoration and becomes a radical act—physical, disturbing, and inevitably political.