The body adorned, the body’s metamorphosis into a garmented state - the interactive process - elevated both physically and imaginatively; The fashioned body as locus of reciprocity and individuality. Layering as self-transformation, on the periphery of self-visualization, never fully able to realize this realization in its wholeness. The fashioned body: the sticky tentacle for the [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Sartorial Studies
| Tags: Comme Des Garcons, Cultural Studies, Fashion, Fragment, Garment, Japan, Lacan, Nonhuman, Phenomenology, Sartorial, Social Form, Sociality, Subject, Tentacle |
Fashion is our binding to the world, the meeting place of the organic and the inorganic. Fashion follows us through hospitality, becomes our personal dwelling place, our very own parergon. The garment enwraps the body, covers the body. Fashion suggests, expects, and allows us to transcend the materiality of our [...]
“In my formulation: ‘The eternal is in any case far more a ruffle on a dress than some idea.’ [Dialectical Image] (1999)” – Walter Benjamin
Interior/Exterior: Meeting Place (An Excerpt)
The space of fashion, the external surrounding of the garment, the inorganic mode, seeks to alter the original body, veiling it with the attributes and tactile [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Communication Studies, Sensual Culture
| Tags: Clothing, Derrida, Exterior, Fashion, Garment, Interior, Limi Yamamoto, Mode, Sartoriasis, Walter Benjamin |
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