A portrait is a representation of an individual person. The goal of the portrait is to capture some likeness of them, something of who they are. Traditionally, an ideal portrait both resembles the subject's physical appearance and captures the essence of that person. Contemporary portraits, however, are made within a cultural and artistic context with deep questions about the nature of identity, representation, and authenticity.
In creating a portrait, Levenzon and Angelo integrated both the disciplines of high fashion and the visual arts by capturing the portraits of some of the top fashion icons and designers of the Philippines. Both artists shall not produce a work that merely describes or resembles the subject, or one that identifies the subject through relationships; instead, the two artists shall try to represent the interior qualities of the person by combining both the physical qualities (the form of the body) and the qualities of entity (painting the personality on the clothes rather than on canvas).
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