Manifesto

To those who have followed my work, worn it, collected it, or simply found something of themselves in it,

My name is Gia.

My creative path took shape in Milan, where I studied Fashion and Textile Design before spending a decade inside the machinery of luxury fashion, creating collections for established houses and learning its codes from within. It was an invaluable education, but also a clarifying one. Over time, I became increasingly aware that what interested me most was not interpreting someone else’s vision, but building a language, an atmosphere and a universe that could exist entirely on my own terms. LAB ACCIDENT grew from that need.

I have always been drawn to antiheroes. Their stories felt more human, more complicated and far more interesting to me than those of heroes. I was fascinated by the figures standing somewhere outside the light: the feared, the misunderstood, the powerful, the strange. That fascination became the foundation of a universe where those characters are no longer the antagonists, but the protagonists.

What interests me is what exists behind the armour: the vulnerability behind aggression, the loneliness behind power, the history behind cruelty, and the experiences that transform someone into something feared, formidable and distorted.

That world is also why I have never been interested in separating one part of the creative process from another. For me, the concept, the object, the way it is worn and the image that surrounds it are all part of the same vision. This is why I remain closely involved in every stage of the work, from developing the initial idea and constructing each piece to creating its visual language, photographing it and modelling it myself. I am admittedly obsessive about preserving an idea as I first imagined it, and I find it difficult to hand over any part of that process when I can already see exactly how I want the final world around it to feel.

Material is never incidental to the work. Leather feels honest to me, and so do metal and rubber. I am drawn to materials that carry tension, resistance, power and mystery, materials that can feel protective and dangerous at the same time.

I want the work to occupy an unstable space between seduction and threat, control and mutation, familiarity and something that no longer feels entirely human. I believe appearance should disturb perception slightly, not enough to shock, but enough to haunt. Enough to make someone appear untouchable, unfamiliar and almost unreal, as though they belong to a world existing just beyond our own.

Contradiction is always present in the pieces: control and surrender, elegance and danger, human and something beyond it. Nothing I make is intended simply to decorate. It is made to transform.

Everything else is world building: a language written in leather, metal and rubber, completed by the people who choose to inhabit it.

Thank you for being part of that world.

Leatherly yours,
Gia