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Of Contraception, Tupperware, Female Genitalia...and Fashion. No, Really.
Recent London College of Fashion graduate Sage Townsend doesn't look to the usual, well-trodden paths (ahem...talkin' to you, the 30s thru the 90s) for fashion inspiration. Rather, for her MA in Fashion Artefact, she traversed the global power of fashion as an education platform to explore the topic of female genital mutilation and the objectification of female genitalia in general.
Her Cu(n)t Collection (above & right) is designed to represent women's ladyparts in "a variety of strong visual and tactile sculptural forms to be worn boldly upon the head or carried as a bag." Using the magic of cool accessories to challenge "ethical and social ideas and expectations," Townsend hopes her work will convey the idea "that body diversity and women’s ownership of their bodies is to be applauded and encouraged, and that women should not be pressurized by dominant cultural notions of the ‘ideal’ female form."
For her Diaphat (left), she was interested in how, for the past 180 or so years, women have been empowered by the diaphragm. "In juxtaposition to the diaphragm I also looked at kitchenware, in particular Tupperware," she adds, noting the it was the element of protection in both that piqued her interest. "Tupperware with its historic female connotation propels itself as a very intriguing subject matter to explore. Regarded as a remnant of 1950s sexism that keeps women in the kitchen, the saleswoman Brownie Wise originally pioneered Tupperware as a means of liberating women in a business sense, creating an enterprise on women selling to women. It seems Tupperware was, for the era, a symbol of liberation, albeit one that seems positively archaic from today’s perspective."
Heady stuff....literally.
- Lesley Scott
NOTE: Honoring the past while rethinking tradition to help us pave the way forward fashionwise is a signature of the Folkspun fashion tribe. For more of my posts about this tribe, CLICK HERE. To learn more about each of fashion's four mega-tribes that I track, START HERE.
Of Contraception, Tupperware, Female Genitalia...and Fashion. No, Really.
Recent London College of Fashion graduate Sage Townsend doesn't look to the usual, well-trodden paths (ahem...talkin' to you, the 30s thru the 90s) for fashion inspiration. Rather, for her MA in Fashion Artefact, she traversed the global power of fashion as an education platform to explore the topic of female genital mutilation and the objectification of female genitalia in general.
Her Cu(n)t Collection (above & right) is designed to represent women's ladyparts in "a variety of strong visual and tactile sculptural forms to be worn boldly upon the head or carried as a bag." Using the magic of cool accessories to challenge "ethical and social ideas and expectations," Townsend hopes her work will convey the idea "that body diversity and women’s ownership of their bodies is to be applauded and encouraged, and that women should not be pressurized by dominant cultural notions of the ‘ideal’ female form."
For her Diaphat (left), she was interested in how, for the past 180 or so years, women have been empowered by the diaphragm. "In juxtaposition to the diaphragm I also looked at kitchenware, in particular Tupperware," she adds, noting the it was the element of protection in both that piqued her interest. "Tupperware with its historic female connotation propels itself as a very intriguing subject matter to explore. Regarded as a remnant of 1950s sexism that keeps women in the kitchen, the saleswoman Brownie Wise originally pioneered Tupperware as a means of liberating women in a business sense, creating an enterprise on women selling to women. It seems Tupperware was, for the era, a symbol of liberation, albeit one that seems positively archaic from today’s perspective."
Heady stuff....literally.
- Lesley Scott
NOTE: Honoring the past while rethinking tradition to help us pave the way forward fashionwise is a signature of the Folkspun fashion tribe. For more of my posts about this tribe, CLICK HERE. To learn more about each of fashion's four mega-tribes that I track, START HERE.
