Angelina Wu

Angelina Wu

Collection

Bio

Visibly invisible, powerfully powerless.

Rooted in my upbringing within a Chinese immigrant family, my brand KAKA theLabel positions humor and absurdity as tools of resistance to confront invisibility.

"Play" functions as a methodology rather than escapism, disrupting the assumed seriousness of fashion to interrogate systems of exclusion and the everyday experience of microaggressions.

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The Tourist Gaze: Performing Paradise

The outsourcing of domesticity, a performance of identifying as Western nuclear families on vacation, the tourist is both a captive and a creator of a manufactured fantasy.
Image: in conversation with Charles Baudelaire - N'importe où hors du monde

Their gaze constructs the world in skewed and distorted representations of reality, which reveal both the desires and discontents of contemporary life.

Drawing inspiration from artists who critique labor, performance, and postmodern identity, tourism is reframed as both a site of wonder and a system of quiet exploitation.

Credits:

Videographer: Antonio Liberato II
Photographers: Oliver Barile, Avery Yuan
Music: Megan Cheng
Accessories: Noa Lee-Lou

MUA: Lauren Wolborsky
Hairstylist: Aidan Rodriguez
Model 1: Lianna Gualberti
Model 2: Marcella Antiko 
Model 3: Madeline Mason
Model 4: Emmeline Mattes
Set Assistants: Elissa Liu, Cammy Feng