ARE you what you wear?
Deception
fail to admit to oneself that something is true • mistaken impression • trick • hoax
Duplicity
doubleness • deceiving or misleading • fraudulent
Artifice
clever or cunning device
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Spanish illustrator/photographer Reclarkgable made a series of photographs of a couple redressed and styled into 9 different looks, ranging from trash to trend, chic to grunge. These different modern looks reveal 9 other identities. This series shows how makeup, clothing and styling can recreate who you are and highlights how clothes and looks play relevant but often dubious roles in how people percieve who you are or how one percieves oneself.
This work challenges my thoughts as it questions how we are perceived. It raises issues of value on the extrinsic (outside, externally) as opposed to the intrinsic (inside, internal). I ask:
Images below sourced from artsytime.com
What goes through your mind as you scroll down?
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- How aware are we of the kinds of 'non verbal' conversations that happen based on how we look and dress ourselves?
- How do we judge?
- How are we judged
- How much of our outer appearance defines our character and in a sense our identity?
- How much of who we are is misinterpreted by how we look?
- Utimately the bodies of the couple that is under all these different looks are the same persons, however can the persona created by the styling and the culture it embodies change the person in the body?
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Does clothing reveal [or conceal] ones:
- status
- age
- proffession
- emotional state
- attitude
- political disposition*
- cultural disposition*
- religious disposition*
- hygiene
- gender biases
- etc etc etc (add to this please)
* disposition means a person's temperament, nature, character, constitution, makeup,
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Robert Sloane says: "Clothing defines identity socially. Almost all clothing is heraldry (coat of arms, rank, protocal...who you are in relation to a group). It tells the world that you accept corporate culture and are a rising star in its hierarchy, a public representative of the company. Or it tells the world that you're counterculture and oppose Big Business. It defines whether you're conservative or liberal, rich or poor, young or old". http://www.qondio.com/clothing-self-expression-and-social-identity
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Ja! i think clothes reveal what you want people to c u like and it build confident e.g a girl that is a lesbian will dress in boys clothes for the world to c her as a boy,so clothes play a big role in potraying what you want people to see u as but sometimes you can mislead the people by dressing all different and on another side you are something else.
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