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Modern society is awash with material goods.
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.
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