The process
The construction of the self-persona in contemporary women in their 20s, through the relationship with their clothing
Why?
The first couple of weeks that I was here, in London, I had a Panic Attack and was the worst experience ever in my life. This is the second time I had experience it. The next day in class I was feeling horrible and someone noticed. That person came into me, and said that I was looking very tired. We started talking and finally I told her. At the end, she told me she had experienced them too and we talked about it. I felt good. Next week after that episode I was talking to another person from class and she openly talked to me about it. She had a panic attack. We are not used to talk about things like this but for some reason between us we did. We have this feeling that sharing this type of things are wrong or are very private.
I want to explore what mental health issues, persons can have around me, and how this reflects into their self-personas. This is a huge part of our personality and identity, and it is part of our process to create our self-persona in fashion. Fashion is a medium of expression. We express ourselves by showing it through clothes. I want to show this through two things:
- Set design: I will make 1 set for each person with meaningful things, experiences or problems from their past. I am trying to create a beautiful, but real, collage of their past.
- Styling: I will use a styling through garments that can show part of their self-persona. What they have become now.
I am working in some questions around this, so I can create from that brief the representation and interpretation of their past and present.
I am also trying to put a camera effects like jaws when the character is in its last position so you could see how present and past merge.
I will update it more!
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