Sunday, February 01, 2009
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According to Sigmund Freud, overvaluation of clothing as a substitute is a form of male defense against female castration. The fetish, which can take the form of any material object, is very often an article of clothing, functions as a substitute for the missing maternal penis. In one of his earliest discussions on fetishism, he also described the case history of a male clothes fetishist for whom “all interest in women was displaced onto clothes”.
And certainly fabric acts to conceal and cover objects and persons while, at the same time, disclosing them, hinting their presence. Perhaps all material desire find their drive in fetishism, but certainly the erotic of fashion. In Man Ray’s photograph, The Enigma of Isadore Ducasse (1920), it illustrates fabric’s ambiguity by showing an unclearly recognizable object or objects, which is enveloped in a rough fabric and tied up with a rope. The wrapping gave the object a certain mystery and seductiveness.
Man Ray, who was heavily involved in the Dada movement, created art pieces that depict fetishism. He photographed Marcel Duchamp dragged as Rrose Selavy, and version of these photos was mounted on a Rigaud perfume as part of the packaging in a playful reference to beautiful Helen of Troy. This gesture manifested a typical Dada delight and yet ironic scorn for mass culture. Dada was not art, it was “anti art”, for everything that art stood for it represented the opposite. Their main intention was to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics of art through their rejection of it.
Therefore, my dress aims to further discuss the bond of fetishism, fabric and art. By wrapping the body with denim and tying it with a rope, showing some distortion of the human body itself, thus further extending the ambiguity of the female body and challenge the traditional aesthetic of dressing and contouring the women body.
The Enigma of Isadore Ducasse:
Rrose Selavy:
collage i made that derive from the concept. and in term influence how i design the dress.
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