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?
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
GALLERY
EXHIBITION
