Dress & Emotion seeks to explore the emotional and sensory act of dressing. It investigates themes of body image, identity, self-curation, representation and the messaging of dress.
The project aims to spark discussion among participants and observers: those who have not considered their clothing as a means of nonverbal communication; those who use dress intentionally as a signifier of identity; those who don’t think about why they wear what they wear; those who are hiding, and those who are on display.
This project was generously funded by Parsons School of Design general, school-based and cross-school research grants between 2013-16.
Research Assistants: Lucy Jones (BFA Fashion ’15), Katherine George (BAFA, Lang ’16), Zhi Hiu (BFA Photography, ’17).
Photography: Zhi Hiu & Chris Choi
Exhibition catalog layout: Satoe Onizuka
Videography, Art Direction & Production: Dustin Flannery-Mc Coy and Andrew Moorehead
A CONVERSATION…
How do we see ourselves?
What comes first? The Body, the Image we seek to create or does one create the other?
Are we dressing a body image that is real or imagined?
Do we see dress as a uniform, persona, provocation or protection?
What is our relationship between dress and environment?
Please join us for the launch of Dress & Emotion, a research project led by Fiona Dieffenbacher, Assistant Professor of Fashion, along with Lucy Jones and Zh...
OUTLIERS
‘OUTLIERS’
For the purposes of this project the term ‘outlier’ is defined as someone with a personal, established dress code and approach to dressing that has evolved over time and as a result this sets them apart as distinctive.
OUTLIER INTERVIEWS
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GALLERY
EXHIBITION
