Within World 162 where human skin has developed wrinkles with leathery texture, the perception of beauty is much more personal. The texture of the skin became a characteristic just like the colour of the eye, height, etc. There is not an urgent need to change it but an affectionate acceptance and understanding of how it becomes a part of one’s identity that changes with the Self simultaneously.
In a world where beauty standards align with the natural beauty of the human body, people love and respect their own body more. This concept focuses on accepting and celebrating the body by making fashion and design naturally more responsive to it, revealing its characteristics instead of hiding them. Having the natural lines and textures of the skin as a part of human identity helps to find a healthier relationship with yourself and your clothes should assist to that. In this world fashion is organically connected with the human body and design is inspired by its natural beauty instead of defining, changing or manipulating it.
This Exploration was contributed by Sára Veronika Kocsis (located in Hungary), developed from a World contributed by Jennie Louisse Cornelio Amio, Nikita Rao, Pratyusha and Jesselyn Chellyca, 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: András Fülöp. Model: Blanka Danyi.
Project undertaken at MOME – Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
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