In World 279, after centuries of accelerating trends and image-driven excess, fashion reaches a point of sensory and ecological fatigue. In response, this world recenters comfort, utility, and bodily specificity as core values. People find appreciation in clothing when they participate somehow in the creation, and wearing experience should be a fluid process instead of pre-decided consumable products.
A universal, modular garment system emerges, where clothes and accessories are exchanged as pieces and patterns rather than finished products. Designed for easy deconstruction and reconstruction, the system produces zero cutting waste and supports a community built around reuse, adaptation, and personal growth of dress over time.
What if …
… garments are constructed by basic pieces and people can renew, exchange and re-combine pieces to customize their own garments?
Issue targeted:
unecessary disposal, production waste becasue of lack of unification, lack of personal connection with industrial products, body exclusivity
Inspiration:
atacac, Issey Miyake
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This World was contributed by Kai Deng (located in China/USA), 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 author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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