FREEDOM by MissG

Lucy Brown

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She makes sculptural textiles and textile installations using deconstructed vintage costume. She uses the past histories of the garments as a starting point to creating multi-layered pieces exploring ideas about femininity.

Lucy Brown

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Her work is entirely experimental; she has embraced doubt and uncertainty, allowing the work to be seen as an ongoing piece/work in progress. It is not finished, and in the future there may be several representations of it, and in different locations it can and will invite different readings.

The "Bra Burning" Myth

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The Miss America protest was a demonstration at the Miss America Pageant on September 7, 1968 by about 400 feminists and separately, by civil rights advocates. The feminist protest, organized by New York Radical Women, included tossing a collection of symbolic feminine products, pots, false eyelashes, mops, and other items into a trash can on the Atlantic City boardwalk. They did not burn bras. When the protesters also successfully unfurled a large banner emblazoned with "Women's Liberation" inside the contest hall, they drew worldwide media attention and national attention to the Women’s Liberation Movement. A reporter covering the protest drew an analogy between the feminist protesters and Vietnam War protesters who burned their draft cards, and the bra-burning trope was erroneously and permanently attached to the event and became a catch-phrase of the feminist era.

Clothing as a functional use

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THE HISTORY OF CLOTHES

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Ever since the dawn of civilisation humans have clothed themselves. However for hundreds of years, clothing has served either one of two purposes:

Purely functional for workers, labourers and peasants practical clothing was essential for day to day life.

Status symbol for the wealthy, landed gentry, royals, bishops and other elite members of society, clothing was seen as a way to show off money and status; highly decorative, intricate weaves and impractical for daily activities.

The concept of 'fashion' simply means what was popular at the time, for example the Romans wore togas, the Victorians wore corsets.

It was not until the 21st Century that clothing was explored as an abstract art form in it's own right by groundbreaking designers such as Alexander McQueen, Azzedine Alaia, Hussein Chalayan and Issey Miyake - to name but a few.

Iris Van Herpen

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Wearable Art

Clothing as a status symbol

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Philip Treac

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Philip Treacy

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Exploring sacred symbolism

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Internal organs crushed by corset use.

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Guerra De La Paz

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Guerra de la Paz is the name of an artistic duet, made up of Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, two Cuban artists who live and work in Miami, Florida.

Since the favorite art medium of Guerra and de la Paz is clothing, the two find procure their material from waste bins and second hand shipping companies in Miami’s Little Haiti. Guerra de la Paz views its efforts of looking for discarded clothing as a form of archaeology. Each item is a relic that defines an individual’s personality, and together with other recycled clothes allows the artist to reinvent classic icons and historic themes, and send a message about the need for recycling, at the same time.

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Ancient practice of foot-binding in Asia

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The female body constricted, limited and deformed by fashion

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Lorna Simpson

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Lorna Simpson 'Wigs'

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Simpson’s work often investigates the history of African American hairstyles and conventions of beauty. From stigma against black hairstyles to reclaiming natural hair as a sign of black empowerment, hair has taken on a variety of social and political implications.Through the texts and images, Simpson refers to the body without including it, inviting the viewer to create narratives about who might wear these hairpieces.

Women suffered for the sake of achieving 'beauty'.

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Are women now free from such constraints? Or is our freedom merely an illusion, as we are now bound by other norm?

The hoop dress.

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Women were not able to walk through a doorway or sit down - or much else.

Mind Map

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How free is the modern woman?

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Clothing, religion and culture.

RADICAL FASHION

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Exhibition at the V&A - 2001

Comme Des Garcons

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Fashion from recycled materials

Hussein Chalayan

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Alexander McQueen

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Razor Clam Dress

Issey Miyake

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