HABITUM
Costume Design and study on individual uniforms
Textile materials serve as physical mediators between bodies, space and movement. In this project, I explore the relationship between “Personal Identity” and “Collective Identity” through the study of individual uniforms. Boiler suits (originally an outfit for workers), were also worn by many Avant-Garde artists as a way to manifest not only their belief in the future of a working class but also to state that an artist was indeed a worker itself.
Dogmas are only subscribed by those who agree with them. HABITUM is looking to make a statement about freedom, using an element of fashion which was originally created to achieve regularity and evenness: the uniform. In the past, morality and political ideologies were explicitly prescribing the rules that we must follow. Nowadays, this imposition is much more subtle and indirectly embedded in our society.
Dogmas are only subscribed by those who agree with them. HABITUM is looking to make a statement about freedom, using an element of fashion which was originally created to achieve regularity and evenness: the uniform. In the past, morality and political ideologies were explicitly prescribing the rules that we must follow. Nowadays, this imposition is much more subtle and indirectly embedded in our society.
Universität der Künste Berlin
Klasse Hickmann 2017