Dazed Magazineのインスタグラム(dazed) - 11月14日 01時53分

The designer trolling fashion with his invisible collection:

In a press release which reads more like the manifesto of a group of political dissidents, Polish designer @arkadius_official describes his second collection as “an objection to the fashion industry’s ruthlessness of pushing people to buy more and more.” The designer goes on to express an anti-capitalist sentiment, saying that the line is “An emphatic rejection of the industry’s cruelty of using people, subjecting creative designers to an inhumane amount of work, as well as getting cheap sweatshop factories to produce more and more while spending less and less.” So, in a similar way to the weavers in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, Arkasius created a collection of clothes that are invisible.

A graduate of CSM, Arkadius set up his own label in 1997 (while he was still studying) after being discovered by the late magazine editor Isabella Blow. His clothes went onto be worn by musicians including @Bjork and garnered the attention of the @britishfashioncouncil who presented him with the New Generation Award in 2000. Recently, he’s made an anarchic comeback in fashion, debuting his first collection under a new name “P-iFashion” earlier this year.

For this campaign, Arkadius tapped Polish artist Pawel Tkaczyk based in Warsaw, who lensed a series of candid portraits of men and women wearing the designer’s invisible clothes. The problem with the current fashion system, as Tkaczyk goes on to say, is that “it’s mainly led by corporate greed and not creativity”. So if the designer is rejecting corporate greed, what is he embracing? “I was inspired by the essence of humanity,” he says, when asked what inspired the line, “And each photograph is a very powerful image taken from everyday moments of life.” When it comes to wearing the collection, you have two options: walking around in your birthday suit or, perhaps the more preferable option, reinvent your existing wardrobe and say no to the companies guilty of exploitation of labour. Or, limited-edition hand-drawn illustrations and photographs are available to purchase. – words @ted_stansfield #dazedinstastory ? @ptkaczyk

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