Through the intricate use of colorful vinyl, beads, and embellishments, La Adorna creates avante-garde styles that focus on unique silhouettes, unusual textures, and thought-provoking themes. “Defend Mode,” La Adorna’s SS2023 collection, will be a statement regarding persons identifying or associating with LGBQTIA and / or women. Models wearing these works will be metaphorically “defending” their erosion of rights by “standing up” for themselves, aka, walking the runway.

To help facilitate the theme of this body of work, each ensemble will be paired with a homemade / found “weapon” that models will carry down the catwalk. The implication of the homemade weapons is that individuals are not pro violence or actively seeking confrontation, but rather they are grabbing household / common items out of desperation to defend themselves, aka, their personal rights.

This series of work will also be a nod to the late Thierry Mugler’s early collections, which explored a provocative and elegant blend of futurism and fetishism. Liberal use of latex-like materials, suggestive cuts, and accessories, such as leashes and handcuffs, will serve to elevate the theatrical audacity of the “Defend Mode” collection. 

La Adorna stands as an extension of B. Schall’s fine art career, which focuses on the theme of personal identity. This concept explores what it is like to be a female artist in a male-dominated field, struggling with never-ending copyright infringement, the tension and fragmentation between familial roots and individualism, and the ever-blurring line between personal and private life through the lens of social media. With these concepts in mind, Schall continues to visually investigate these ideas through her wearable art.