The house is the body — the dream is to inhabit it without fear.
Bodies that shine like Pritzel's dolls — fragile, elongated, made to be looked at.
Dream Body House is born from fashion's obsession with the doll as an aesthetic archetype — the symbol of an unattainable body.
Starting from key elements identified in Lotte Pritzel's early-twentieth-century wax dolls and moving all the way to Barbie, the aesthetic traits of a historical fetish are reinterpreted through camp elements that push dysmorphia to its extreme.
The collection was presented at the final runway show of Università Iuav di Venezia.
Lotte Pritzel's wax dolls — fragile, elongated, decadent bodies made to be looked at, never touched.
Barbie — the mass-produced ideal, a body standardised into plastic perfection.
Barbiecore — the plastic dream goes viral, nostalgia flattened into an aesthetic filter.
Dream Body House — the archetype turned camp, proportions exaggerated until the fetish reveals itself.