One attendee noted, “Jocelyn doesn’t want you to look pretty. She wants you to look dangerous.”
As you leave the gallery, the last piece is a mirror with a single phrase etched into the glass: “Lo prohibido es lo que más deseas.” (The forbidden is what you want most.)
Jocelyn Medina has not just created clothes. She has created a confession booth. What do you think of the "Prohibido" aesthetic? Would you wear the Latex Sonnet blazer? Let us know in the comments below.
Translating to “Forbidden,” the gallery is not a traditional runway show. It is a static, immersive installation where each look tells a story of clandestine love, secret vices, and the beauty of breaking rules.
“We dress for the world,” Medina said in the press notes. “ Prohibido is about dressing for the shadow self—the version of you who exists when no one is watching.”