This editorial explores the female body as something constructed: assembled, styled, and controlled like a doll. Inspired by vintage paper dolls and marionettes, the project reflects on identity as something shaped through external elements such as clothing, gesture, and image. The body becomes modular, adaptable, and performative.

Garments and details, such as clipped bows, suggest a body that is dressed and pieced together, while exaggerated, spiked lashes distort the gaze, creating distance and artificiality. The poses introduce a sense of heaviness and quiet tension.

The result is a figure that exists between object and person: delicate, controlled, and subtly unsettling.

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CREDITS
Creative Direction and Styling : Catarina Lima and Adriana Bárbara
Make-up & Hair: Catarina Lima and Adriana Bárbara
Photography: Catarina Lima
Model: Inês Canas