Alec Ohanian
Intro to Fashion: Rec
Emilia Jane Boulton
Septemer 3rd, 2018
“Fashion moves in space and time. it shares in the complexity of physics and mathematics, making patterns and networks, forming mazes and constellations. Through its forms we have an opportunity to re-unite art and science and to heal the rift of the two cultures.”
–Christopher Breward, Foreword.
As time progresses, the human race develops new technologies to solve problems had around the world and simultaneously creates new ones issues which require a solution. This viscus, yet necessary cycle is what keeps man advanced, relevant, and safe. While many of these advancements revolve around the scientific world they affect many different fields which they can be applied to. One of these fields being the fashion industry. The fashion world requires a lot of altering and adjusting everyday in order to grow and evolve with its followers. New textiles are designed, and sustainable technologies are developed in order to keep the industry fresh, and flourishing. Many of the technologies which have assisted the industry in it’s effort towards relevancy have been created at the hands of scientists and engineers all around the world. These “designers” [if you will] allow our industry to “move in space and time.” Now although it is the scientific developer which are supporting our industry, we are the ones who give them reason to design and invent new technologies every day. Our problems are the reason their solutions are needed. We feed off of one another and help each other evolve.
“Fashion is intensely personal, in the same way that poetry is intensely personal it is a medium though which personal stories can be told, memories re-lived and futures foretold.”
–Christopher Breward, Foreword.
Perhaps the most intimate moment ones shares with themselves is when they are getting dressed. Whether it be after you’ve woken up, before going to sleep it is a moment in which a person makes a choice to tell a story. Some days they want the text to be very clear and bold and others they want a bit more mystery to the chapter. Whether a person knows it or not, they are forever bound to fashion. From birth our fashion is manipulated as someone chooses it for us, and as we grow we either want it to be clear that we think about our fashion as an asset or we want people to know that we simply cannot be bothered by aesthetic efforts. The fashion world allows everyone to represent themselves in a public setting. Everyone is allowed to use and manipulate fashion to their advantage without consequence because that is what it is here for, for sculpting and tailoring to our personal needs and desires.
