Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth appears here in a posture that is at once self-assured and delicate, as if suspended between glamorous presence and silent interiority. Gregory reinterprets this emblematic portrait by giving it a contemporary reading, where light and matter extend the visual power of the image.

The dress, enhanced with crystals applied to the decorative lines of the fabric, as well as the necklace and the bracelet, becomes a space of subtle shimmer. These sparks are not mere ornamentation, but a work of precision that creates a dialogue between sensuality, elegance and poetic tension. Pink, a recurring chromatic signature in the artist’s work, brings an emotional softness that contrasts with the power of the posture and the strength of the gaze.

A quote from Rita Hayworth is discreetly hidden within the work:

“I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.”

It appears as an interior thought, almost whispered, reminding us that the true intensity of her presence lies less in the exposure of the body than in the strength of attitude, mystery and identity.

This piece does not freeze the icon: it reveals a woman inhabited by a calm presence, between strength, fragility and inner light. The work thus inhabits a space where cinema memory and today’s artistic gaze meet.