Mythology has always known what fashion is only beginning to admit — that the female figure is not decorative. It is elemental. The Mermaid is not a fantasy. She is a memory. An image of the woman who belongs to something older and deeper than the world that is trying to contain her. Shot for Selin Magazine’s print issue in Cape Town, this series moves between the surface and what lives beneath it — beauty that does not ask for your approval, power that does not need to be explained.