The image above is of Tadanobu Asano and Chloe Sevigny for Uniqlo’s Spring 2008 UT collection. “UT” is, as stated on Uniqlo’s website, “a limited edition collection of t-shirts designed by renowned artists, designers, photographers, etc.” What interests me today is this UT publicity photograph and what it might reveal to us. That is, what [...]
By jgrefe
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Posted in Creative Expression, Sartorial Studies
| Tags: Aura, Chloe Sevigny, Envy, Fashion, Gaze, John Berger, Photograph, Reproduction, t-shirt, Tadanobu Asano, Uniqlo, UT, Walter Benjamin |
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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