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Photography
Michael Savage michaelshaunsavage@gmail.com
Models
Jordan Slater Katie Grovsener
Printed by
LCA Reprographics
Printed on
Fine Matt Finish Paper
Typefaces
Helvetica and Hand-Rendered
Clothing
Model’s own, Vintage and Levis
by Olivia Miller
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SOMEHOW, WE’LL FIND IT. THE BALANCE BETWEEN WHOM WE WISH TO BE AND WHO WE WANT TO BE. BUT FOR NOW, WE SIMPLY HAVE TO BE SATISFIED WITH WHO
we are. Brandon Sanderson, ‘The Hero of Ages’
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W
e all move in rhythms and waves. Some find comfort in the uniformity, there’s a pattern behind what we do, and what we can expect, there’s a uniform. Each day we wake from having repetitive dreams, though we soon forget. We get out of bed. Pour ourselves a drink and attempt to start the day. Wash. Shower. Change. Check the mail. Light up. For some it brings a challenge. For some, they see the world differently. They were born to be no one other than themselves, however they don’t fit the pattern. They have their own uniform. It is instilled in us from high school and onwards. You have a routine every morning. You wear your matching uniforms correctly. You blend together. You get to your lessons on time. You achieve. Uniform.
If you don’t, you are judged. Scruffy. Loner. Late. Loser. You. If you are wiser than the uniform of society, you will have wandered until you find your niche. It may be a place, a thing, a hobby, the right park bench where you don’t feel anxious to sit on your own and ponder, a friendship, the right shade of lipstick that matches your shoes. If you believe you are smaller than the uniform, it consumes you until you become one amongst the many, trapped living in a box, watching a box. Your vision becomes square. You lose yourself. There’s a constant black that shadows your life. What if you could change that? What if a moment changed that? If the blackness became part of you, the thing that defines you. Your uniform.
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Mad About The Boy. Mad About The Boy, an exhibition curated by fashion journalist, Lou Stoppard, explores the ideas and themes surrounding the teenage boy and manhood. Including work by the prestigious Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent, Raf Simons and Gosha Rubchinskiy, the exhibition creatively showcases the fixation around the male youth culture through interactive spaces and displays. In Education.
The exhibition made a clear distinction of the young male within a school setting citing ‘The school yard and classroom offer countless themes to the fashion photographer or designer: bonding, group identity, routine, and rules and regulations.’ Displayed, were Raf Simon’s AW/15 graffiti coats referencing a school ‘leavers’ shirt. Raf’s collection hints at the significance of uniform in a person’s life.
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There are few pieces of clothing so closely tied to life progression and human growth than school uniform. It provides symbolism to ‘the rite of passage’ and for many, a feeling of intense nostalgia is evoked once revisiting it. Stoppard states ‘There are few pieces of clothing so closely tied to life progression and human growth than school uniform - a prefect’s badge can turn a boy to a man and a new blazer may ignite a fresh confidence in a way no future garment ever can’.
In His Space. Mad About The Boy also explores the young male in his own space, his bedroom. The SS/13 presentation of now defunct label, Meadham Kirchhoff, provided a set design for a typical teenage environment consisting of pizza boxes, duvets and male orientated musks re-envisioned in the Fashion Gallery Space. Often the teenage bedroom can be interpreted as a place of mundanity, routine and frustration, but here it was displayed as a place of expressive freedom described by Stoppard as ‘a hub of dreams’.
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AND IN MY DREAMS WE’RE STILL SCREAMING Arcade Fire ‘The Suburbs’