a/w 2002
MANIFEST DESTINY
MANIFEST DESTINY
This collection is all about youth and sexuality, the culture of disgust and how we view it. Chalayan wanted to portray how clothes can be used to place the body within a cultural setting of prevailing notions about beauty, chastity and decency. He wanted to free the body and restore Identity. The clothes sort of became about anatomy and you can see in the picture above how Chalayan makes the dress look as if organs have been cut out and pieces of the body are falling out. LIke intestines. This is something that interested me in particular, but I'm not sure about this idea as a film.
s/s 2003
AMBIMORPHOUS
This is quite clearly inspired by Turkish costume. The collection starts with a traditional Turkish which, throughout the show, morphs into a Western coat and then a dress, and finally morphs back into the Turkish costume. The idea is that Western intervention is powerful at the moment, and that it has become a sort of 'ethnic vs. modernist' situation.
I love the sense of power and powerlessness captured throughout this collection and I particularly like the playing with and questioning of cultures (something that is obviously quite personal to Chalayan).
s/s 2003
AMBIMORPHOUS
This is quite clearly inspired by Turkish costume. The collection starts with a traditional Turkish which, throughout the show, morphs into a Western coat and then a dress, and finally morphs back into the Turkish costume. The idea is that Western intervention is powerful at the moment, and that it has become a sort of 'ethnic vs. modernist' situation.
I love the sense of power and powerlessness captured throughout this collection and I particularly like the playing with and questioning of cultures (something that is obviously quite personal to Chalayan).
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