CREATIVE DIRECTION Miranda Lorenzo & Lyan Kaplun
PHOTOGRAPHY Gosha Pavlenko
STYLING Lyan Kaplun
MUA Sofia Foiera
HAIR Sergio Sorbello
FASHION ASSISTANT Rosario Torello
HEADER IMAGE Miranda wears Top: JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, Bag: MARSELL
Miranda is a multimedia designer and fashion creator from Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently based in Milan. Her work is driven by a deep fascination with materiality, storytelling, and self-expression. Whether through design, art, or garments, she crafts visual narratives that play with texture, form, and colour in an intuitive and experimental way.
Fashion, for Miranda, has always been more than aesthetics – it’s been a form of self-protection, a confidence booster, and at times, a necessary shield against the world’s expectations. This personal relationship with clothing is at the core of this project, which explores the idea of outfits as a protective coraza.
The Spanish term coraza translates to “armour” or “shield,” a metaphor for the emotional and psychological defences we build through hardship and adversity. While this armuor can be essential, it can also create a sense of isolation – trapping us within our own self-made barriers.
Skirt LORENZO SEGHEZZI, Top, dress and socks: SHAHAR AVNET, Glasses STYLIST’S OWN
With this project, Miranda and her team examine the duality of resilience and vulnerability, using design to express the tension between protection and connection. The body itself becomes both armor and prison, a space where strength and fragility coexist—mirroring the contradictions that define the human experience.
Dress and gloves DOMENICO OREFICIO, Earrings VINCENT VINTAGE BIJOUX, Boots MARCELL
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