‘Monokini 2.0’ is a thought-provoking social art project that aims to reinvent modern swimwear for breast cancer survivors.
Designed by a group of Finnish fashion designers, the daring bathing costumes are meant for ‘single-breasted women’ who have won the battle against the disease.
Though somewhat revealing, the swimming outfits were not designed to hide the surgical scars–instead they expose the scars, encouraging survivors to be proud of their bodies and not be ashamed by it.
“We think that the current focus on a breast-reconstruction after mastectomy as the only way to a full life is a breast-fixated way of seeing what a woman is,” wrote the project’s website. “We want to incite a positive self-image of breast-operated women by showing that you can be whole, beautiful and sexy even with just one breast or with no breasts at all.”
“Our other aim is to dig into the restrictive social taboo on what is considered appropriate – of exposing something that is not there. Seeing an exposed breast is considered nakedness, but why is exposing no breast also considered nakedness?”
To find out more about the project, please visit the website here.