MODA 2016 - INDUSTRY

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このたびシカゴ最大級のファッションショーで3着のカプセルコレクションをテーマ「シカゴの未来、現在、過去」として発表させていただきました。

3着目は、シカゴの発展を支えたのち経済のグローバル化によって廃れた工業地帯が、かつて1871年にシカゴが大火災で燃え落ちたのち新たに生まれ変わったように、衰退を経て新たな形でかつての勢いを取り戻すことへの希望を表現した作品です。

photo: Chris D'Angelo
model: Nathan Decety
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Third Look: Industry/Periphery/Reconstruction. Chicago's development was largely supported by the industrial sector. Today, however, Chicago has lost much of its industrial character and employment, resulting in dilapidated neighborhoods where there was once plentiful employment in factories. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire, referenced in this look by the makeup and the fabric which looks fireproof, brought change to the downtown area through the reconstruction which followed, giving Chicago its characteristic skyline seen today. This look, constructed from drawstring emergency supply bags representing the gravity of the situation faced by the ailing periphery, and featuring customized Jika-tabi(地下足袋), a Japanese working-class shoe, applies that past to the industrial periphery of Chicago today, in decline from the globalization of industry, and struggling for a new role, a new identity.