An exploration of vulnerability, desire and male intimacy that uses fashion to challenge the traditional codes through which the body and identity have been represented.
Dripping Nudes
IED Madrid - Student: Guillermo Moñux Ramírez
Academic year
2025-2026
Dripping Nudes begins with a question that is both deeply personal and universal: what does it mean to stand naked before another person? From this reflection, the project develops a menswear collection that explores the relationship between the body, desire and the gaze, questioning the traditional ways masculinity has been represented in visual culture.
The figure of the bather becomes the conceptual core of the collection. Historically associated with vulnerability, eroticism and contemplation, it serves as the starting point for a dialogue between nudity and the formal language of the menswear wardrobe. Rather than treating the body as an object of display, the collection reclaims intimacy, affection and fragility as spaces from which to rethink masculine identity.
Drawing on references from art history, photography, cinema and literature—from John Berger to David Hockney, Wolfgang Tillmans and Nan Goldin—the project creates an imaginary where love, nostalgia, water and desire intertwine to shape a deeply emotional narrative. The sea, bodily fluids and foam become metaphors for encounter, loss and transformation, permeating both the concept and the visual language of the collection.
Dripping Nudes proposes a new way of looking at the male body: through sensitivity, vulnerability and tenderness. An invitation to understand that true nakedness lies not in the absence of clothing, but in the ability to reveal oneself to another without artifice.
Guillermo Moñux Ramírez is a student on the Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design.
