120 x 160 cm
Fashion Shapes Identity
Fashion Shapes Identity
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Product Details:
- Title: Fashion Shapes Identity
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year: 2022 - 2025
- Dimensions: 120 (H) x 160 (W) x 3 cm / 47" x 66" x 1,2" inch
- Style: Contemporary modern abstract
- Signature: Signed by the artist
- Condition: 1/1 Original
- Medium: Acrylic, collage, oil stick, aerosol on stretched canvas
- Framing & Display: unframed, shipped ready to hang
- Shipping: Free worldwide shipping
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✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the Artwork:
Fashion Shapes Identity explores the powerful dialogue between personal expression and external influence. Fashion is never just clothing — it is a language, a signal, a mirror of who we are and who we are becoming. From the colors we gravitate toward to the brands and spaces we choose, style becomes an extension of identity, shaped by culture, environment, and experience.
This large-scale abstract composition reflects that complexity through layered materials and dynamic contrasts. Fragments of fashion magazine collages are embedded into the surface, partially revealed and partially concealed, echoing the way identity is constructed through borrowed references, aspirations, and personal reinterpretation. Acrylic paint, aerosol, and oil stick interact freely, creating tension between structure and spontaneity, refinement and raw gesture.
Bold marks intersect with softer transitions, suggesting the constant negotiation between individuality and influence. The surface feels in motion — built up, disrupted, reworked — much like identity itself, which is never fixed but continually evolving.
Fashion Shapes Identity is a visual statement about self-definition in a world of images. It captures the layered, fluid nature of identity and celebrates fashion as both inspiration and imprint — a force that shapes how we see ourselves and how we are seen.
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Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
Free shipping included. Shipping usually takes 3 to 8 days. Double bubble wrapped inside cardboard box. Return is possible within 14 day withdrawal period, starting on the day you receive the creation.
Guaranty
Guaranty
Original work delivered with a certificate of authenticity by Kristin Kossi.
My work explores freedom in its many forms through pop culture, ambition, nature and the choices that shape the way we live. In my Pop Art, familiar characters and cultural symbols become a language for exploring success, money, love, independence and the contradictions of contemporary life. Icons such as Scrooge McDuck, Mr. Monopoly, Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson are removed from their familiar narratives and placed into new ones sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, but always reflecting something about the world we live in and what we choose to value. Alongside this, my abstract work has evolved through a closer connection to nature. Living and working between wild landscapes in South Africa has shifted my perspective from the symbols of success toward something more elemental — land, time, movement, solitude and the freedom that comes from living closer to nature. What connects these seemingly different bodies of work is a continuing search for freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to question. Freedom to change. And ultimately, freedom to live life on your own terms. I believe art can shift perspective. For me, creativity is not only a way of making images, but a way of understanding life — and continually redefining what truly matters.