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Synergy of Fashion and Architecture – ‘Final Home"

This paper explores the ways in which contemporary fashion and the concept of ‘architectural wear’ and clothing create new ways of understanding contemporary culture and society, as well as how does fashion now appear as a new way of understanding body- space. Fashion is inextricably linked with the body and creates new time/space categories, but more important new corporeal experience especially when dealing with the concept of architectural wear and objects. Fashion for survival or refugee wear especially in the era of great political change is of great importance, because it detects how societies treat or rather don’t treat this specific problem within contemporary fashion. Moreover, this problematic opens up another interesting field within fashion studies and fashion history and that is the notion of art in fashion as well, specifically the relationship between architecture and fashion. With close comparative reference to a range of examples including: Studio Orta’s Refugee Wear project, Kosuke Tsomura’s Final Home, Hussein Chalayan Afterwords collection, Rick Owens architectural 2017 men’s collection, this paper will argue that within the concept of architectural wear and performance, fashion gains new meaning and the body can be re-performed in various forms so it can easily move and inhabit various areas. Fashion in contemporary culture can no longer be perceived as an image or a process. Instead, these two polarities wind together and form new body architecture. The main aim of this paper is to display how ‘architectural clothing’ creates new ways of recasting the body garment as well as the body itself. The body is not a spectator, but rather a medium through which we engage with the world and it exists in relation to the space it inhabits. The ways in which the body garment is assembled and then worn on the body expresses new bodily situations. The body is always ‘emplaced’ in a world that is constructed of objects and other subjects. This paper will also try to elaborate why contemporary fashion, after the 1990s changed its relation both to body and dress due to social, cultural and political change, especially in terms of refugee wear and clothing.

contemporary fashion, architecture, clothing, refugee wear, new body experience

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