JAG MINNS… I REMEMBER…
Ongoing research project.
Fashion is often seen as forward gazing; the new is what drives fashion forward. Memory, on the contrary, recollects the passed. Garments - here viewed as the specific and concrete expressions of fashion - are the material connection between the past and present.
This research project is interested in fashion’s and clothes relationship to memory; how individual- specific- memories can transcend into a work that is about everyone. By collecting multiple individual memories, and in time join them together side by side, the aim is to build a collective memory bank connected to clothes, where each memory contribute in painting a larger picture of the roles clothes have on us.
Memories of clothes, styles, trends or appearances will lay as a foundation for this research project. I invite you to take a trip down memory lane, and recollect a memory where garments have been a key player. This can for example be how we remember what we wore on specific occasions or the way clothes felt or smelled like. It can be memories of when clothes felt wrong - or just right.
WANT TO make a CONTRIBUtion? LEAVE A MEMORY Below
Write as freely as you want or use the points bellow to guide you in the recollection.
Describe the garment - What did it look like? What did it feel like ? Smell? Touch? Taste? Structure? Colors?
Describe your relationship to the garment - Was it your own? Did you borrow it? Was it someone else’s garment?
Describe how you felt when wearing the garment (or when someone else wore it.)
Do you remember any specific incidents/happenings connected to the garment? - Did you wear it on a specific occasion? To a celebration? To a first date? When ending a relationship? To a job interview? When you got some shocking news? etc.
Have you gotten comments from your surroundings when wearing the garment?