SS22 Lookbook
Mithridate’s Spring/Summer 2022 collection The Mirror Stage transports you to a surreal infinity orange orchard in Shanghai. Founder and Creative Director Demon Zhang often approaches her collections through a surrealist lens.
As seen from the title The Mirror Stage, a psychoanalytic theory by Jacques Lacan which investigates the belief that a child’s self perception develops at six months old, establishing the recognition of themselves in a mirror and thereafter introducing the formation of the ego.
Zhang is fascinated with this primal stage of life wherein a child feels only the basic functional emotions to survive: happiness, sadness, hunger & fear. She explores why adults cast out their inner child and perhaps complicate their own lives with learned emotions.
Zhang is fascinated with this primal stage of life wherein a child feels only the basic functional emotions to survive: happiness, sadness, hunger & fear. She explores why adults cast out their inner child and perhaps complicate their own lives with learned emotions.
The collection’s core is captured through paths of flaming oranges, where an orange orchard is illusioned with mirrors. Hand drawn drawings by children contrast and capture the emotions of the adult and inner child.
