What Women Want

Kit Santos, an artist, was once inspired by the idea of beauty and luxury depicted in vintage advertisements. However, upon careful examination, he realized that women had been objectified and beauty was advertised to please men. This realization led him to question whether men dictate the standard of femininity.

As an artist, Kit’s love for storytelling slowly painted a different picture of women with the same allure of vintage designs. He fused his style to show women’s confidence in their skin, careers, and intelligence. He portrayed women who proudly showed themselves without conforming to what the world tells them to be. From women taking the initiative of courtship to celebrating their success with expensive bags and champagne to the loving wife who happily makes dinner, they are proud of their choices, no matter how simple or luxurious.

The quote by David Henry Hwang, “Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act,” delivered powerfully in the 1993 film M. Butterfly, sent a series of questions and inspired him to question this philosophy. It is important to break free from the societal norms and expectations we have been conditioned to believe in and embrace our true selves. It is important to be true to want we want.