FASHION EROSION

doctoral artistic research exploring fashion as an artistic media. I examine fashion artifacts (ready-made) as relics of a consumer society that critically reveal its contradictory nature.

photo by agnė gintalaitė

JUSTĖ TARVYDĖ – Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Design (Vilnius academy of Arts), Head of the Master’s degree program (VAA), PhD student in the field of design at the doctoral level of art.

Erosion is a conceptual metaphor which reveals the various aspects of fashion. Over the course of the research, erosion emerges as both a creative approach and a way of interacting with objects. Excessive fashion production actively erodes the environment, necessitating a new way of thinking. In this research, fashion’s conventional role is erodes into a more conceptual and artistic one. As layers of fashion are peeled back, cultural meanings are revealed and given new interpretations as contexts change.