Monster Under the Bed

All over the world, stories of scary monsters are used as precautionary tales for children. And yet many fairytales teach us that what society deems monstrous is often more misunderstood than evil. Stories like ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ show that our personal journey starts when we step beyond our fear of being misunderstood. Embarking on that personal quest himself, Clemens Tomlow found that there is power in celebrating otherness. His costumes draw inspiration from childhood monsters that embrace different stages of the weird and odd: from anxiously hiding from bullies to a proud and confident beast. The collection seeks to bring out the inner child in all of us, to open our minds and question our fears.