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Transient Structures. Layers of Social Meaning in Conceptual Clothing
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Within the conceptual framework of WLC 2016 we have chosen to explore a transdisciplinary approach of postmodern clothing. Fashion has always been a domain in which sociological, philosophical, political, cultural approaches have spoken about its contents and contexts. Recent sociological studies of fashion have revealed the deep meanings of conceptual clothing and the interwoven network of thoughts that is the starting point for such intellectual approaches. Fashion scholars such as Bradley Quinn, Caroline Evans, Valerie Steele or Malcolm Barnard have underlined the role of conceptual clothing in casting a light upon various social issues and symptoms. Through this paper we want to argument how layers of social meaning transform certain fashion projects in reflexions of the Zeitgeist. In the current socio-political context such investigations do not necessarily offer pertinent answers, but certainly raise more questions and awareness.
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The paper argues that conceptual fashion can carry layered social meanings and act as a temporary shelter or protective habitus amid fragmented contemporary life. It reads selected projects by Hussein Chalayan and Lucy Orta as responses to displacement, identity loss, and social precarity.
Key findings
- Conceptual clothing is framed as a kind of temporary home or protective layer, with designers translating social issues into garments and installations. Chalayan’s *Afterwords* (2000) is discussed as a wearable evacuation solution in which furniture textiles become clothing, chairs become suitcases, and a coffee table becomes a telescopic skirt.
- Chalayan’s *Absent Presence* (2005) and *Temporal Meditations* (2003) explore identity, genetics, geography, and otherness. *Absent Presence* involves DNA taken from clothing of three immigrant women in London and a scientist who begins to question her own methods; *Temporal Meditations* is set in an airport as a heterotopia and draws on Chalayan’s research into his genetic and ethnic roots.
- Orta’s *Refugee Wear* (1992) responds to the Gulf War with weatherproof garments that can become tent-like temporary shelters. *Nexus Architecture* (1993–2002) uses worker overalls for collective social sculptures, including a 1995 Venice Biennale intervention with newspaper headlines about the Rwanda genocide and a 2000 installation opposing child manufacturing plants.
- *Modular Architecture* (1996) combines portable shelter with community-oriented logic: units are grouped in fours and can combine into a single construction while remaining individually wearable and personalizable.
Methods
- The paper uses a cultural-based, transdisciplinary approach drawing on fashion theory, art history, visual culture, and cultural studies, with a bricolage-inspired interpretive collage.
- Sources include written articles and reviews, images, and video materials. The analysis is divided into two categories: individual identity struggle, examined through Chalayan, and functional transient shelter, examined through Orta.
- The study focuses on six projects: Chalayan’s *Afterwords*, *Temporal Meditations*, and *Absent Presence*; Orta’s *Refugee Wear*, *Modular Architecture*, and *Nexus Architecture*.
Limitations
- Stated in the paper: the authors could not access the *Temporal Meditations* fashion film because of a lack of visual support, so they relied on photographic and textual material from Pitti Immagine Uomo and on the ready-to-wear collection.
- Stated in the paper: such investigations may not offer definitive answers and mainly raise questions and awareness.
- Evident from the text: the study is interpretive and theoretical, with no empirical data, audience reception, or systematic comparative criteria; its claims are limited to the selected designers and projects.
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“With this project, Orta also managed to organise public interventions, and participate in international events, such as the Venice Biennale in 1995, where she used the surface fabrics of the Nexus clothing to inscribe them with newspaper headlines reporting the genocide in Rwanda.”
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“In response to the dislocation of individuals from social structures, Orta uses conceptual clothing as means of connecting the individual with others.”
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“That is why, many of his collections and artistic projects reflect a personal quest of finding out”
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“The short film takes place in an airport, which can be identified as a heterotopia.”
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“In such a confusing social and political environment, Hussein Chalayan was born, and even though he left his native country when he was very young, the mixed ethnicity of Cyprus influenced his work.”
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“The Modular Architecture is based on multiple of fours, where groups of four individual units combine to become one single construction (Quinn, 2002, pp. 19-26).”
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“Or in 2000, she intervened in the initially linear structure of the Nexus Architecture and transformed it into a crisscross of connections resembling the molecular structure of atoms.The end result was a clothing installation consisting of several hundred suites, which conveyed a powerful message against children manufacturing plants (Orta, 2011, p. 28).”
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“It consists of temporary, portable shelters composed of individual sections that can be combined in different ways.”
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“The pieces of conceptual clothing have multiple purposes; they can function as weatherproof clothing, and they can easily be transformed into tentlike temporary shelters.”
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“In probably his most referenced collection, Afterwords, Hussein Chalayan, designed a wearable solution for a context in which people are forced to evacuate their home during a time of war by using clothing as a mean to take their possessions with them.”
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“The pieces that constitute her project are designed to provoke awareness of certain issues in society.They are designed in such a way that they work on many different levels”
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“As an immigrant himself, he understands that a loss of private space means also an identity loss, so he designs his clothes as portable items which can be taken by the immigrants on their journey, becoming palpable reminders of whom they were, helping them figure out who they are now.”
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“Afterwords is Chalayan”
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“The basic form of Nexus Architecture is a worker”
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“Through their projects, they aim to provoke a social reaction to such contemporary issues as forced migration homelessness, exclusion, social decay, oppression, fragmentation.”
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- Not matchedcites Orta, 2011
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“While working on this collection, Chalayan also collaborated with a genetic anthropologist who performed a DNA test on him and helped him trace not only his own genetic make-up, but also that of the different ethnic groups that inhabit the island of Cyprus (Robert, 2011, pp. 16-19).”
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“In violent and harsh environments that characterize urban zones, clothes become, metaphorically, protective shields, which remind us of the complex costumes from post-apocalyptic books and movies.”
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“They manage to tell stories about alienation, disintegration, mobility, and exploration.”
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“Whereas the concept of Refugee Wear is built around the body, and highlights the issue of social exclusion, in the case of Nexus Architecture Lucy Orta expands her artistic practice from the microcosm of the individual to the macrocosm of the community, from multifunctional clothing to modular textile architectural structures.”
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“Due to their proximity to the wearer”
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“Ane Lynge-Jorlén, in her article entitled Shameless Trespassing, discusses the concept of”
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“Within the postmodern environment these conceptual approaches are more than relevant and influential.Their impact is visible not only in the fashion-art projects but even on the ready-to-wear clothing.”
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“The clinical environment in which the biological experiment takes place is Chalayan”
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“Thus the entire collection and the fashion film reflect the designer”
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“Scholars have analyzed this kind of function and they concluded that it is a new kind of urban configuration, a temporary one, adapted to the new environment which is subjected to violence.”
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“Caroline Evans who has constantly and consistently written about the hidden meanings of conceptual fashion is also underlining its capacity of addressing problems specific for the contemporary society: from political conflicts to ideological conflicts and from traumas to dereliction.”
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“The fascinating part is how these”
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“If they are not able to offer solutions for certain problems, they most definitely raise more questions and awareness.”
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“To ensure our research gives these sources weight and credibility, we shall adopt an approach inspired by bricolage methodology:”
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- Not matchedcites Denzin & Lincoln, 1998
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“Conceptual fashion or fashion projects which have solid concepts as starting points are mostly based on layers of social meaning and try to say something new about the body, the articulation of clothing on the body and how it influences the wearer.”
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“Modular Architecture combines the protective functions of the Refugee Wear with the interdependency and community oriented Nexus Architecture project.”
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“All the mentioned designers are storytellers capable of saying something new about the complex relations between the body, the clothed body, and the identity of the wearer and the purpose of the clothing.”
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“The examples and projects that we are going to investigate go further than this and transform clothing in abstract shapes that have a strange and fascinating articulation on the body.”
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“In such a space, the anonymity of the individual prevails, social relations are blurred.”
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“Lucy Orta is interested in the protective power of clothing, and the way it functions as intermediary layer between the individual and society.”
§ Transient Structures. Layers of Social Meaning in Conceptual Clothing > Sheltered on the Road
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In the paper
“Due to a lack of visual support, we did not have access to the fashion film, but we relied on photographic and textual support provided by the online platform affiliated with Pitti Immagine Uomo, and we also focused on the ready to wear collection, which materialized, through garments, the narrative of the fashion film.”
§ Transient Structures. Layers of Social Meaning in Conceptual Clothing > Lost in Transition: Space and Identity
plainstates a cause- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
- Rests on an assumption: The available photographic and textual documentation for Temporal Meditations is sufficient to interpret the fashion film's narrative and meaning.
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“Conceptual designers have been very sensible to the big problems of contemporary life: financial crisis, the terrible impact of terrorism, constant attacks, massive immigration, and refugee crisis.”
§ Transient Structures. Layers of Social Meaning in Conceptual Clothing > Conceptual Fashion and Social Contexts
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- Rests on an assumption: The works of Hussein Chalayan and Lucy Orta selected for analysis are representative of conceptual clothing's layers of social meaning.
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“The Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 reconfigured, through military force, the island of Cyprus where the Greek Cypriots from the northern part of the island were expelled to the south and the Turkish Cypriot population from the south was displaced to the north (Pericleous, 2009, p. 201).”
§ Transient Structures. Layers of Social Meaning in Conceptual Clothing > Lost in Transition: Space and Identity
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In the paper
“In his art project entitled The Absent Presence (2005), Chalayan challenges the stereotypes against the”
§ Transient Structures. Layers of Social Meaning in Conceptual Clothing > Lost in Transition: Space and Identity
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“It encourages participation and collective activity.”
§ Transient Structures. Layers of Social Meaning in Conceptual Clothing > Sheltered on the Road
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may state two separate claims as one.
The paper relies on this without support.
The works of Hussein Chalayan and Lucy Orta selected for analysis are representative of conceptual clothing's layers of social meaning.
“By focusing on the works of Lucy and Jorge Orta, and Hussein Chalayan, our aim is to explore the different ways in which social changes, urban reconfigurations, and geographical dislocation question our notions of space, form, mobility, and identity.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The available photographic and textual documentation for Temporal Meditations is sufficient to interpret the fashion film's narrative and meaning.
“Due to a lack of visual support, we did not have access to the fashion film, but we relied on photographic and textual support provided by the online platform affiliated with Pitti Immagine Uomo, and we also focused on the ready to wear collection, which materialized, through garments, the narrative of the fashion film.”
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- Authors
- University of Art and Design, C.-N., BROSCATEAN, L., STAN, O., & Zipcode Fashion, C.-N.
- Affiliations
- Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca (RO)
- Corresponding author
- BROSCATEAN, Lucian
- Venue
- Postmodern Openings
- Publisher
- SC LUMEN MEDIA SRL
- Published
- 2016-06-27
- Volume
- VII
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 149-164
- ISSN
- 2068-0236 (ISSN-L)
- 2069-9387
- OpenAlex
- W2461756206
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 6.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Postmodern Openings (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cultural and Historical Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art, Politics, and Modernism
- Keywords
- postmodern fashion, Hussein Chalayan, modular architecture, afterword, absent presence, urban restructuring, identity, mobility, space and form, artistic process
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