The Dressing Room
Every morning this despicable yet adorable goblin creature wakes up and (after 11 cups of coffee) puts on her ‘human woman’ drag in order to face the day. As Simone de Beauvoir said, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
In the Dressing Room we explore the way we create ourselves each day with costume, how clothes shape our identities, and the power of an outfit to take one from Bog Witch to Glam Bitch.
Or you can just watch me get dressed. Pervert.
The amazing Arlinda McIntosh showing off her favourite outfits. I wish I was this cool.
"She [Zandra Rhodes] only moved into fashion because nobody would hire her, she says, even though she had been the star student of her year at art college."
"Clothes as a way of socializing that stands in for other forms of engagement. Clothes worn to substitute for speech. Clothes worn to fit in, to pass. Clothes worn in imitation of people I’d like to be like – IRL people, people in films, in books. Clothes as a search for the self other people appeared to have – though maybe it was just the way they “put themselves together.”" - Joanna Walsh
The mad flip-floppery of gender and fashion, and orienting towards a future that doesn’t exist
The Artist is Dressed
Sometimes…
Which door will you open next?
The Cabinet of Curiosities - for more delights
Let’s talk about identity