Clara De Angelis: The Female Gaze
Text: VIONNE Magazine | Photographer: Clara De Angelis
Model: Hilari Gjinika, Emanuela Garofalo (2r Comunicazioni), Angelica Febbraro
Wardrobe Stylist: Simonazarrella | Hair Stylist: Marco Tuccillo
Fashion Designer: Rossella Santoro, Valentina Galluccio
Makeup Artist: Morena Fasano, Chiara Nazzaro
Unapologetically Self-Possessed
In The Female Gaze, photographer Clara De Angelis presents a project conceived through the female creative mind, redefining the traditional paradigms of seduction, strength, and power. The editorial strips the femme fatale of cliché and reclaims her as a figure of autonomy — magnetic, proud, self-aware, and fully in control of how she is seen. Against vivid pink backgrounds, glossy black textures, sculptural styling, zebra-patterned gloves, metallic headpieces, and theatrical silhouettes, models Hilari Gjinika, Emanuela Garofalo, and Angelica Febbraro embody a femininity that is not performed for approval, but expressed with command.
Through a complicit perspective free from stereotypes, The Female Gaze explores sensuality as something intelligent, deliberate, and powerful. Vulnerability is not hidden, but transformed into force; softness and danger exist side by side. Every pose, glance, and gesture becomes part of a larger visual reclamation, restoring a fierce and empowering narrative to the female figure. With wardrobe styling by Simonazarrella, fashion by Rossella Santoro and Valentina Galluccio, hair by Marco Tuccillo, and makeup by Morena Fasano and Chiara Nazzaro, the series becomes a bold statement of modern femininity — seductive, unapologetic, and entirely self-possessed.
