My initial enquiry into 1950s fashion began with admiring images of my Grandmother’s wardrobe. This has always influenced my styling along with Old Hollywood film. It felt important to challenge the undercurrent of the period because I was aware of the social injustice that surrounded it. Here is where I discovered the Male Gaze: a presence of male dictated aesthetics that act to objectify women, particularly dominant during golden age cinema (1910s – early 1960s). The proposal for my project was to re-write 50s fashion in the modern, female gaze. I would curate a bank of female art, studying the stories they told. I extracted 1950s elements such as the A-line skirt, printed florals and material choice. From this, I applied concepts of the female gaze such as re-writing our own narrative and contemporary art styles such as palette knife painting to bring these elements into a new space for my collection: Who Wrote You?