ABSTRACT
Shadowear is a practice-led research that challenges conventional approaches of fashion design and making. The prevailing methods in fashion design take the body as a subject to be dressed and attempt to translate its three-dimensionality into garments. Yet such approaches overlook the multiple existences and extensions of the body. This project explores the body from a new perspective: through the body’s shadow projections onto various surfaces and in different contexts. Expanding the borders of the body and implicit of the garments into the territory of the shadows has the potential to dissolve perceptions of race, size, individuality, gender and identity.
