GIANLUCA TRAINA

re-imagines the notion of portraiture by combining 2D and 3D elements in his portrait 360 series.

Wearing as inhabiting

Habitus is a visual and sensory inquiry into the relationship between body, garment, and nature. 

Clothing becomes not a shell, but a living habitat—a terrain where life and meaning take root. It is a suspended, artificial landscape where nature is no longer free, but confined, coexisting with the memory of waste. 

Clusters of fabric—textile fossils of our time—are preserved like relics. Around them, flowers and plants sprout from transparent garbage bags, an unnatural coexistence of organic beauty and plastic discard. These are not just remnants, but matter in waiting, marked by layers of consumption. the human being moves through this fragile space: flowers bloom from the shoulders, plants climb the fabrics. 

The body becomes porous and slow, inhabiting the tension between care and decay, nature and artifice. Textiles bind; plants extend; gesture becomes both ritual and resistance. In this delicate balance, Habitus imagines an alliance—between the body and what dresses it, between time and what dares to bloom. A quiet echo of the present, it reflects on fashion not as consumption, but cultivation. A tribute to slowness, to care. A garment to grow. A skin that blossoms.