My first idea was to do a shoot to show female empowerment through freedom of clothing, focusing on the use of underwear and fetish clothing, such as leather belts, waspies and corset, as outerwear. In this case, I wanted to play with the opposing ideas of oppression and empowerment embedded in the corset. I looked at the tight lacing and the use of corsets in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, that aimed to constrain the woman’s manners and enhance her curves; this was of course restrictive clothing for the women’s movements. I then looked at Jean Paul Gaultier’s conical corset for Madonna and Vivienne Westwood corsetery as outerwear that became popular during the punk movement of the late 70s and 80s. I was happy by how the shoot turned out but it was very styling-orientated and, as I later changed my idea, -I decided to do my project about consumerism, the fashion industry and its issues- I did not go into more detail on the shoot and on the theme of feminism