In World 152 designers are seen as religious leaders, healers. Clothes have deep sentimental values. How they dress is closely related to the emotional state of the wearer. Each garment is personalised by the owner. They hold monthly gatherings where everybody can mend or make the pieces they need with the help of the designer.
My designer takes inspiration from old folklore and ancient religious customs. There’s three big life events that they celebrate with rituals. Birth, marriage and death. Each celebration require masks.
Funerary masks are used by the passed and their loved ones who were left behind. Each mask is prepared by the grieving.
It is believed making ones wailer mask is therapeutic and helps mourn the deceased.
The death mask is usually made by the closest acquaintances, they pass it along themselves and everyone adds something to it.
This Exploration was contributed by Zóra Bíborka Tóti (located in Hungary), developed from a World contributed by Annalisa Espino Lim, Nicholas See Wen Bin, Denise Yeo, Brian Loh Keng Chee and Caitlyn Rose Baird, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
Photo: Péter Bakó. Model: Krisztina Vass.
Project undertaken at MOME – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
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