Don’t just eat your food — wear it.
“The Surrealists love to use food motifs and so this carries over and we see this really strong connection between the three,” Marra-Alvarez says.has to do with one’s identity. Fast food, which is a part of all of our lives, is as much a motif in the show as any, with a couple of White Castle uniforms designed by it-bagmaker Telfar and an upcycled outfit made from old McDonald’s uniforms that I truly wouldn’t mind wearing to a fancy event.
“I think one of the reasons why it’s such an accessible way for designers to express their cultural identity is that it’s so so often we think about food as kind of the ambassador for a culture,” Way says, adding that several items in the show explore this through the designer’s own identity.“Issey Miyake created this little bento box of accessories that he rolled into sushi and when you see sushi, you automatically think of Japan,” she says.
All in all, the show — from banquets to burgers — shows that food and fashion frequently come together to express all of our identities.“For a very long time, food and fashion studies were dismissed as not serious academic areas of study,” Marra-Alvarez says. “I think what this exhibition will hopefully highlight is that it definitely is, because it’s the lens through which we can study culture, society and politics. It’s just so enmeshed in so many topics of our daily lives.
“I think that’s a really important kind of takeaway, there are all these examples that are historical and that are fun, as well as serious topics like sustainability, activism and labor,” Way adds. “All of these are things we want our audience to think more deeply about, but also to go about their lives and think about the ways that food and fashion intersect in their lives and what it expresses for them.”Washington, D.C.
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