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Preface: The Observer looks outwardly from within. Our body mimics this notion, encasing thought behind the body walls within its chamber. It creates a separation from the conformed outside world. This sartorialist engages psychoanalytical and philosophical perceptions and translates them into an answer for the choices people make. A peculiarity emerges from the observer. Why ‘Fashion’? Perhaps because it is the most obvious subtext in deciphering what people want to express? It is their attempt to untie the knots which tangle us all together. The observing sartorialist aims, in their fragmented writing, to dismantle the unconscious actions of the people. Over time the entries unfold before us, an almost effortless and predictable way of saying ‘I told you so’. The workings of this commentator, or narrator, who reads the scenes before them – are they not also part of the fashion system? The observer comprehends the stereotypical title of an individual and processes it into the simplistic and literal. ‘Inside and outside are inseparable’i. The point is that we must look from the inside, outside.
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It’s as if they shun the existence of a system that formulates them.
These individuals transfigure their fashion style when it suits them.
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The subconscious act of taking off clothing can tell me many stories. Even the adjustment of their limbs, hands and fingers as they swivel, pull, press and bend all partake in the act of positioning the body as its shape shifts and settles into a second skin.
Out of their will, they decide to disfigure their bodies to ‘fit in’.
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Once that piece of clothing has worn out, they too feel worn out. To renew themselves they begin to be in want. The seams in their garment keep their silhouette intact. They speak of what you ‘put yourself through’. ‘A shape is nothing but a sum of limited views, and the consciousness of a shape is a collective entity’.iii
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Is fashion then a transportation device used to ‘get-by’?
What is repressed also sits side-by-side to what is latent. What is latent sits side-byside to what is resisted.
I cannot execute blame because people may be going through their days in numb passivity.
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This continuity in time has shaped our fashionable society so unknowingly.
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There is this inclination to stand firmly by one’s moral values, yet they hesitate for they dread being disapproved.
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If the entire fashioned society is repressed the combination of their opposing styles creates disorder and confusion. It is then that repression comes with exerting what’s from the inside, releasing their tensions upon one another unconsciously. This results in the emergence of new trends and those who ‘stand out’.
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Is there a need for circumstantial relevance that returns us to current social behavior? You tell me. Upon watching them it has come to my attention that people live idly, almost a weighty type of patience to ‘speak as you’re spoken to’ in the sense of what to wear when. ‘You can wear that tomorrow not today’, they indirectly proclaim.
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The others behold the semiotics of a second language. I can’t refrain from asking, ‘Is there really an unbalanced rhythm which they have become used to and normalized?’
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That so-called trend, which has been nearing us, is no more than a reappropriated piece of work which only exists upon instructing words entering into your ears if one is willing to hear it.
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I attempt dismantling the continuum of change by interpreting their styles, their whereabouts and forms of communication. It seems that they go into â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;auto-correctâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mode, questioning whether they will be accepted or denied.
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They are constantly in question saying, ‘Does this look good?.. Is what I’m wearing decent?.. What will they think of me’? In their last minute touch ups they finalize their body with what seems right. Sometimes they remove what they thought was successful and quickly throw on what is ‘in’. . And despite these occurrences, I see them repeatedly evaluating themselves in what’s worn . It indeed affects the psyche…
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Fashion at large is the conversion of a verb into a noun. A factual occurrence in living becomes The Image.
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When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.â&#x20AC;?
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By Chantelle Heldt S3287331 RMIT - Bachelor of Design (Fashion) 2nd Year Submitted: 30.05.2012