This collection of cloth and metal-wire garments by Brazilian fashion designer Karoline Vitto finds beauty in the bulges of flesh that women are encouraged to cover up.
Designed as part of her masters degree at London's Royal College of Art, Vitto's The Body as Material collection features seven garments that accentuate the rolls and curves of the female form in different ways.
The graduate told Dezeen how the project came from "a very personal place", inspired by her own relationship with her body over the years.

"The project started by me looking at how I had dealt with my own body image over the previous years," Vitto explained. "I started by taking a series of photographs wearing a waist clincher I had bought in Brazil a couple of years ago." "The intention of that purchase was having a slimmer figure, but the piece was so tight that it would make rolls pop up and down," she continued. "So, to smooth them out, you'd need a specific type of bra, then a specific type of knickers and so on."
"I was interested in proposing a new way of looking at those areas that I had tried to hide so much before."

The designer's favourite piece is a body-contouring midi dress made from different types of heavy-weight black jersey, with one long sleeve arm and one sleeveless arm.
The dress boasts an under-boob cut-out and a large, curvy mesh panel running down the centre of the garment that subtly reveals the wearer's skin under...