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In a time when anything can be bought with money, our ability to think about whether or not we really need the materials is numbed. At he same time, the vicious price war creates unbelievably cheap products that suggest severe working conditions in impoverished states.

There are just too many materials goods. In the modern world, you are showered continuously with new products like viewing a fast-forwarded film, all before you have a chance to find what it is you really need.

The objective of my work INFINITY wear is to provide a chance to reexamine the meaning of consumption and what it is that we really need in this society overflowing with material goods.

All INFINITY wear is made of inexpensive fabric that cost less than 5 per meter and when taken apart it becomes a ribbon of cloth. This is to avoid producing leftover cloth, that is garbage, which is always produced in conventional clothes making. This ribbon of cloth is wrapped around the body and pinned in places to make a costume.

For storage when not worn, I thought of a bobbin shaped package. With the abundant consumption of modern times comes the need for ample storage space and this in turn sparks new consumption in an endless cycle, but this bobbin shaped storage package is compact and eliminates a lot of waste losses. The package is made of recycled paper.

Just a few ribbons of cloth and imagination and ingenuity are all that is necessary to create this unique, elegant, and avant garde costume and storage. This is a challenge to the relentless consumer society where material can be easily obtained while at the same time benumbs the consumer mind.

Beneath the six INFINITY wear costumes runs a large river-like belt. It is made by taking apart old clothing that is constantly generated in the modern world of throwaway goods. Everything is made of old clothing and nothing new is used here.

INFINITY wear created from simple material using imagination and ingenuity floats upon a river that is the result of consumption in modern society. From this contrast, I want us to consider what real simplicity is, what is means to think, and to take another look at our own consumption with hope that it will serve as a warning to modern society.

installation plan