Out of Fashion (Ida Taavitsainen)

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The Memory of MyWardrobe,

Out of Fashion

Ida TaavitsainenUCA Rochester Talk 2012


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Background The Memory of My Wardrobe is a

project I started in the 1 st year andthat became my final project in the3 rd year

A project about the relationshipbetween clothes and memory A majority of my clothes have

belonged to someone else before me,mainly to my family members (as farback as great great grandmother), soI became interested in the storiesbehind these garments


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Research

Interviewed the persons whos clothesI have inherited/been given to get toknow the stories behind

Also interested in the craft andenvironmental aspect these areclothes made to last, and they stilldo, decades later

Interested in how other people haveinvestigated the theme behind clothes& memory, and clothes & identity, aswell as fast fashion and the fashionindustry today


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References

Linda Grant: The ThoughtfulDresser

Justine Picardie: My MothersWedding Dress

Alison Laurie: The Language ofClothes

Lucy Siegle: To Die For IsFashion Wearing Out the World?


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Jeanette Montgomery Barron: MyMothers Clothes


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Miranda July & Harrel Fletcher:Learning to Love You More

Assignment #55: Photograph a SignificantOutfit


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Riitta Pivlinen: ImaginaryMeetings


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Miyako Isuichi: Hiroshima


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The Memory of My Wardrobe

If these clothes could speak, whatstories would they tell?

Project in two parts, Storytelling andAbsent Bodies

Together they form a body of work thatcombine some of the many roles ofclothing: ones wardrobe is witness topresence and also about fashioningperformance

Also an ode to the time when clotheswhere made to last, and a commentagainst fast fashion and throwawayism

A family history told through clothes


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Storytelling

Image and text based the background and props in the

image usually have arelationship or associate tothe garment

The text is about the historyof the garment as well as itsrelationship to me


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Absent Bodies

The more performative,sculptural, part of theproject, where the garments arealive and speak in the absenceof the person


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Out of Fashion

A fashion publication andexhibiton project made incollaboration with Eeva Rinne and

Siru Kivist Made as part of our final project Fashion as a form of art and

communication Features our visual projects as

well as texts by five authors


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Siru Kivist: Layered Within

Fashion and over consumption References to both contemporary fashion

photography and renaissance portraiture Dressed her models in layers, to express

that awkward relationship, where thegarment is no longer a treasured object,but a burden at the back of the wardrobeof the consumer

Between the layers of the clothesKivist plays on the edges of admirationfor fashion and its critique, new andold, artificial and natural, beauty andugliness the contradictions of fashionitself


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Links

http://out-of-fashion.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/

Out-of-Fashion/121525307929564 www.idataavitsainen.com www.eevarinne.com http://pebblestate.wordpress.com/

(Siru) http://addresspublications.com/

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Out of Fashion (Ida Taavitsainen)