Research Post 2

Is fashion modern? When it comes to fashion, people often think of its long history and how much it has impacted people’s lives since the very beginning. Fashion is something that has existed for a very long time, people don’t really relate fashion with modern. However, a team called Accurat studio decides to take a step forward and embed fashion with technology. In Oct of 2017, their team did an exhibition at MOMA, exploring the present, past and sometimes the future — with 111 items that have had strong impact in the 20th, 21st centuries. They dug into the stories behind each item and built a landscape that shows the overview of the structure of the show as well as a visual access to the stories behind it. One of the example was that the Dashiki was actually not a traditional west Africa garment like most people thought, instead it was a mass-produced modern garment emerged in New York City in the 60’s.

One of the sections that caught my attention was the section that showed different pieces of clothing item that can fit different body types. It visualized different body shapes in different scenarios, showing that our bodies were not always so perfect, and no matter what our bodies sizes or shapes were, we should feel confident and beautiful. In the exhibition, they also took pictures of tattoo and remapped them onto a model’s body. The tattoo can also follow the curve of the body, and it redefined what tattoo meant to people and showed how arts could interfere with technology and created a new form of it.