ABSTRACT
The most celebrated scene of the Genesis, represented by Michael Angelo in the Sistine Chapel, tells of the moment when, from the fingers of God and Adam, the spark of life is lit. This is the original touch that instates the order of the cosmos. When Creation is finished, Adam and Eve taste the forbidden fruit and, before driving them out of Paradise, God dresses them with animal skins. Recalling the endless history of our origins, we find that the physical functionality of clothing is surpassed by its communicative value: a utility object that protects against the weather and other inconveniences, clothing only makes sense when ‘dressed’ and fulfilling the function of appearance. Fluctuating between being and appearing, it is in this imperfection that fashion operates according to its paradoxes which we will refer to in this paper.
