FIT symposium

What did you learn?

I learned the most from the first lecture with Amy, the model and the talk on religion and fashion with reference to Islamic and modest dressing. It was also exciting to hear from the model who wore those beautiful McQueen wooden legs. That made me think a lot more about the accessibility of how clothing functions now and how clothing should be more accessible and wearable for those who do not have the “full” human body. I say full in quotation marks because as Amy said, she never saw her self as lacking, why try to replicate a human foot? that line really struck me and I realized that larger designers should take a page out of McQueen or Gaultier’s book and start designing for different body types as the image of beauty we have now is a fetishized hyper-thin version of femininity.

The other talk was also fascinating as modest dressing has always been a key point of discussion with me in regards to fashion. With the middle eastern market being one of the largest for luxury, more brands have started to cater to that market with Valentino and Chanel being good examples, as well as Dior recently for its wearability. However, with my discussion with the speaker, I did agree in saying that fashion can be superficial with its inspiration that draws from religion
Did anything surprise you about the subject matter?

the talk on masculinity pleasantly surprised me as for once, the men referenced in the show were not just white gay men ‘defying masculinity’. he included disabled, gay, non-binary, Indian men and more.

the talk that had the most impact on me was the first talk on disabled dressing. I had many questions come up from that, such as ‘ to what extent can fast fashion adequately meet different needs for differently abled people?’, ‘why do more schools not have focused classes on innovative problem solving for differently abled people?’

from the talk on masculinity, questions about the fashion industry and how queer individuals were represented came up such as ‘for a supposedly inclusive industry, why are most of the models cisgender, white and straight?’

 

 

About me: coming from a country where the arts, queer culture and anything subversive or controversial was never given importance or were frowned upon, I am deeply interested in all of those things. Artists and designers like Le Corbusier, Rouchamburg, Margiela and more inspire me and my love for archiving, deconstruction, Dadaism and the grotesque. I am also incredibly passionate about fashion, cinematography and the Marquis de Sade. What I want to bring through in my work is a study of some of my obsessions, both thematically and in execution, some of which are controversial in their content but that's why I chose a school like this where a voice is recognized

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