The Bite Magazine - Autumn/Winter 2025 - Issue 38

bitefashion I f couture is a dream made tangible, Jen- nifer Milleder’s world exists at the edge of wakefulness, where fantasy shimmers into form, and garments become portals to another dimension. The Austrian designer’s latest collection, ‘Candy Moon’, presented as part of her ongoing exploration of wear- able art, takes fashion to the lunar frontier. It’s a surreal sci-fi reverie rendered in candy gradients and metallic glow, where feminin- ity meets futurism and Alice, yes, that Alice, takes her next leap into space. For Milleder, storytelling has always been inseparable from construction. Every seam carries narrative weight; every silhouette be- comes a character. Her work has long been described as ‘dreamwear’, theatrical yet tac- tile, poetic yet precise. But she goes further, merging the innocence of Wonderland with the sleek geometry of science fiction. The re- sult is a collection that feels cinematic with garments that could clothe astronauts and angels, somewhere between the studio of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and the imagina- tion of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The story begins with Alice continuing the narrative fromMilleder’s previous collection, ‘Rabbits n’ Roses’. This time, she lands on a pastel-coloured lunar landscape, an other- worldly candy planet where gravity yields to emotion. The collection unfolds like a chap- ter of a surrealist novel involving volumi-