Fashion Misfits is a series of portraits of young people with Down syndrome, made in collaboration with an Indian NGO. Sanjyot Telang wants to redefine beauty norms and promote a non-conventional aesthetic. With this first project, she hopes to pave the way in the world of fashion and advertisement for models living with handicap and ordinarily excluded from social representation.
“Sanjyot Telang’s original approach shatters conventions, and this is precisely what fashion is all about,” explains the fashion reporter Yseult Williams. “Taking fashion outside luxury is today an absolute necessity if we want to reach people, since luxury no longer appeals to the world at large. Fashion must convey other values than those of a product; it must engage the viewer emotionally. It is at its best when it acts as a prism for the human condition. That’s what the great fashion magazines, such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie-Claire did in an era that was, after all, much more conservative. Sanjyot takes up this lost tradition. Emotion predominates.”
Bourse du Talent 2017
December 15, 2017 to March 4, 2018
Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Quai François Mauriac
75706 Paris
France
