Alina Sonia Niculescu

‘girls’ is a fashion-based project exploring femininity and softness. through photography and styling, it builds an intimate world around clothing, domestic space, beauty rituals, and mood; beginning with personal dreams, memories, and stories, and a visual language rooted in quiet gesture. a cherry pressed against a cheek to stain it pink. the weight of eating in bed. small acts that hold tenderness, play, and transformation.

the images construct scenes in which girls appear suspended between presence and performance. moving through visual memory and stylised atmosphere, the work asks how girlhood continues to circulate as both aesthetic and emotional condition and why these images continue to return.

the photographs borrow the language of fashion magazines, but care less about brands and clothing than about building a world. styling and light are used to create feeling, tension and character.

the final presentation takes two forms: a coffee table book and a textile installation. the book holds the full series as an intimate archive. selected images printed on fabric bring the work into closer contact with the body, touch, and cloth, hung and folded like unfinished garments, existing somewhere between image and object.

together, the works compose a feminine atmosphere shaped by memory, cultural residue, and fragile gesture. girls considers femininity not as something fixed, but as something constructed, repeated, and carried through images, objects, and ways of looking.