“It’s just a little nana belly”
The amazing Arlinda McIntosh showing off her favourite outfits. I wish I was this cool.
“Recognize the thing that excites us the most”
"[W]e have to recognize that the thing that looks most flawed, might, in fact, be the most interesting thing in the work. So we’re not looking for the thing that functions best, because to do that is to only reward the most conventional and most familiar moves the work makes. But to try to recognize the thing that excites us the most, or intrigues us the most, which may be something the writer doesn’t even understand." - Peter Turchi
Translating your genius
"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 worn to substitute for speech."
"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
Lexy Ho-Tai
TFW you find someone on the same path as you but is doing it on a whole other level. Respect.
Masking as performance art
Ah, masking: that exhausting dance we do to 'pass' - as neurotypical, as straight, as 'normal' (whatever that means). It's draining, but unmasking can feel terrifying. And for those of us who didn't discover our true selves until later in life, it can be hard to know who we are without the mask.
