Ramblings...
It can be considered that the contribution of artists and designers in the community is to encourage social reflection/consideration through sensual stimuli - bypassing intellect, cultural differences and age. As clothing designers, are we not equipped with the ideal medium in which to creatively communicate? Firstly, every single one of us in the human population must participate in visually expressing ourselves everyday through dress. This generates a rich and varied range of signifiers of which we can manipulate and juxtapose to communicate any social concept in great depth. Secondly, every single member of the population is also conditioned to reading those signifiers before any social interaction has even occurred. This therefore equips us with a wide range of tools of which the majority of the population will identify. T'is just ideal really!
So... As an example of this kind of exploration, is a project I developed on a short course at Central Saint Martins in London - Sportswear for the Obese 2007
This was a little play around with the excellent art of Jenny Saville - a Goldsmiths graduate who exhibited most famously alongside Damian Hirst in the Saatchi Gallery's Sensation exhibition in 1997.
Concepts...
One day I will create this collection - or something like it...
I'll finish some more excellent Jenny Saville artistry...
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