The map of fashion

The relationship between the body, fashion, the map and the making of place is a rich area of exploration by a variety of creative practitioners, anthropologists and theorists. This essay discusses the propositon that fashion, or the clothed body, is the 'stuff' of the inhabited landscape. Conceived of a map of fashion, this map documents and communicates an embodied landscape through a topography that lives, breathes, pulsates and evolves through the everyday actions of those that are there. The 'place' of this landscape is both here, and there. It is a landscape that transistions as the individual moves through the various locations of their lives. It is a landscape that transitions as the individual moves through the various locations of their lives. It is a landscape of the collective and the singular. My clothes mark and identify me, our clothes create an individual collective; a landscape of colour, shape and form, that is positioned within the contructed and natural world.