THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE WOLF

A fashion film in collaboration with National Theatre Costume Hire

What if the wolf was never in the woods, but in the mirror?

The Little Girl and the Wolf is a psychological reimagining of the Red Riding Hood tale, transposed to the present day and told entirely through costume. Here, the forest is internal. The Girl, consumed by a mourning depression, conjures the Wolf as the darker half of her own fractured psyche, grief given fur and teeth. Girl and Wolf are one body at war with itself, shifting frame to frame between innocence and appetite.

Behind blood-red curtains, half theatre, half fever dream, the struggle plays out until the Girl overcomes her shadow and reclaims her own story. The predator was always the grief; surviving it is the transformation.

Drawing on the National Theatre’s costume archive, the visual language collides Victorian mourning dress with a contemporary punk edge: top hats and velvet frock coats against leather harnesses, corsetry and studded biker jackets. The wardrobe becomes the script, a story told not in words, but in seams, silhouettes and shadows.