WHITESPACE:
SKIN | SURFACE | SPACE
Fashion + Architecture Band (FAB)
Collaboration w/ Zach Hoh
Spring 2015
*Showcased at the 2015 DAAP Fashion Runway Show
WHITESPACE questions the relationship of the human skin within surface and that surface/skin within space. This began as an intentionally naive exercise using compositional methods such as simple geometries, collage, registration, and illusion as jumping off points to see where the potential of the garment could lead. The floating pocket became the anchor (or armature) of the garment that allowed a visually powerful vertical stripe element to run through the full length of the piece. Proportion and scale were then addressed through assymetrical composition with a longer front piece and a short back piece, each composed with differing stripes within itself, and white-on-white patchwork with differing textures. Materiality became the defining moment of how the garment would interface with the skin and space, and uphold the concepts of geometry, space, and illusion.
Three materials were used: white scuba (main body), white faux-leather (stripe & patchwork), and clear PVC (stripe and collar).
As the body moves within the all-white surface, the human skin becomes part of the palette through the voids created by the clear PVC stripe. A sense of eroticism and voyeurism is established as other bodies within the space fixate on the flesh within the white canvas. The surface covers the socially accepted amount of flesh, but the illusion allows the mind to freely wander...
