These four drawings started out as short pencil sketches of poses presented in a life drawing session and how I was triggered by the addition of a corset, not of my choosing. It was impossible to create an image, in my eyes, that didn’t objectify or sexualise the model when wearing the corset. The history of the corset is fascinating and helps us to understand some of the subtleties of female oppression but also how it has been reappropriated today as an item of feminist fashion, with kinder fabrics, worn as a flaunted outer garment. Vive la mode de Vivienne Westwood.