The Fashion Body

The Clothes act as a frame. They give our bodies meaning, but do not define them. The body can be read and understood without clothes, but without the body, clothes are rendered meaningless.

The Fashion(able) Body: Olivia Marks.

Fashion is not fashion without a body. In two dimensions there is simply a blueprint on paper, shapes imposed on cloth. These must be fashioned and nurtured from two to three dimensions, darted, pulled, eased and stretched perhaps; layered, crimped, sliced, tucked and pressed.

Who is fashion for?: Sandy Black