SS25 Inspiration
SS25 | inspired by
Tarot
"All my work as a feminist designer is inspired by muses. Powerful female icons from past and present. Although women have been marginalized for centuries, archetypes of female power have always been there. Through my designs, I bring them to you. To help us shape the world of modern-day feminism. This season, we step into the mystic - aka 'Arcana' - with the Queens of Cards. From the glorious female archetypes of the Tarot to the card-reading 'Tarotistas'; these ladies can show you how to reshuffle your cards and win at the game of life. For many generations, we have been taught to mistrust our feminine intuition. Tarot offers an accessible - and playful! - way to regain your spiritual authority and reconnect with the wisdom of your soul. Are you ready to see what's in the cards for you?"
- Marlies Dekkers
Tarot & I
'I grew up in a house filled with spirits and symbols. Long before I shuffled my first deck of Tarot cards, I watched my grandmother invoke the Holy Spirit with her shiny prayer cards. A woman of few words, she was fluent in the language of symbols. The cross, the stars on Virgin Mary's crown, the Immaculate Heart; these magical images touched me deeply in a place I would later call my soul. And I told myself: where words stop, magic starts.
As an art student, I learned to express myself with symbols. As a designer, I took an everyday object - a bra - and turned it into a symbol of a new kind of female empowerment: feminine feminism. Born into a working-class family, expected to become a housewife, I reshuffled the cards I was dealt and shaped my own future. Without a mentor or formula to follow, I created my path by walking it. But I did have some magical guides: the glorious archetypes of the Tarot deck. Like my grandmother invoking the Holy Spirit with her prayer cards, I channeled the colorful characters that symbolize our necessary transformations. For each phase, the Tarot offered me a new Muse.
- Marlies Dekkers
