the Other:
myself: OF A dress represents the idea of a garment, manifested at the threshold of reality.
It's an accessory, a layer over everything else that we choose to wear on any occasion.
the Other:
myself: It augments our reality! Wearing OF A dress feels as if one is visited by this garment, by this other possibility. It evokes other lives, other wishes, other personas, other contexts, styles, thoughts, dreams ..
In a funny way I could say it undresses rather than dresses us, revealing and playing with all these potential layers of desire.
the Other:
myself: I choose black and white, to keep this layer within the realm of dreams, .. I believe we do not dream in colours, though I might be wrong. When worn over garments of similar tones, OF A dress appears, disappears and reappears, enhancing this feeling that it visits the body on a temporary note.
the Other:
myself: Its movement is crucial, .. if other garments are nouns, OF A dress is a verb. It exists when in movement. To design it is to guide the air held within an idea of a dress, allowing it to gently form the physical OF A dress.
the Other:
myself: It was once referred to as the 'inverted comas for words'. I suppose it suspends the meaning of all that we wear and adds that Other layer.
the Other:
myself: The effect of this layer is familiar to the world of stage, of dance in particular. It evokes that moment of suspended reality, where interpretations vary, allowing poetry to outlive its performance and be part of our everyday.
My background in performing arts inspired OF A dress to exist at this intersection between the world and ideas.
the Other:
myself: Something that barely exists, requires sophisticated engineering. OF A dress is an idea ready to wear.