notes
[ in progress ]
This is a selection of personal notes and visuals that explore how acts of care and refashion(ing) might shift us away from a focus on making per se and the expected generation of new designs and collections. Contemporary fashion should also be a conscious creative practice that allows for consideration of mindfulness and resources that expand on expressions of cloth, inclusivity, and environmental awareness.
Since presenting these ideas in settings like the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the California College of the Arts as well as via design/textile journalism and global art venues, current climate and global humanitarian crises necessitate venturing furthering to explore how fashion is as much about fashion(ing) self in partnership with ‘the other’ as it is about continually generating form. – [ mood boards by A.D. ]
“I think about that empty space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years ― because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.”
― Meredith Monk, American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer
“Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.”
― Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
“It's crops, it's the earth, it's handwork, it's culture, it's society. You tug on a thread and you get everything,” she said. “That's what I'm slowly realising [about fashion].”
― Avery Trufelman, creator of the podcast series, Articles of Interest (during at interview for BOF, Business of Fashion)