The premise was a daunting one: how to start a capsule collection around a film which ends, ultimately, in great tragedy. The Lisbon girls lived in a time of enourmous social change and excess, a time in which the sweetness of childhood, of girlhood, of coming-of-age was lost in the fray much too quickly. The repressive actions of the girls' overly protective parents served only to cage them and prevent any sort of natural transition into their tenacious environment, ending, of course, in rebellion and their eventual demise. The demise of beauty. Of purity and grace. Of innocence and the happiness inherent to simple things.
In the film, their suicide was a mutually agreed-upon revolt against everything ugly, negative and consumptive in the world.
In my collection i chose to focus on the lasting, inherent and ethereal beauty and grace of these girls. In spite of their toxic and tumultuous environment, they remained as beacons of hope to those taken by them, even after their untimely demise. There's something gorgeous about that, something telling. In each of our lives we seek out these tiny moments of beauty to propel us along through the drudgery and frustration that can be the meat of the average day to day. Here's hoping that this collection brings a bit of beauty into your life, as it's meant to.