COMME des MARXISTS -- White Columns, New York 2013 / Performa, 2013
Cat Walk - White Columns, New York / Peroforma 2013
Intallation view - White Columns, New York
about this work - text
MARX TOXIC
Today, producing anything equals some direct of indirect pollution of our environment and the depletion of our resources even if in most cases we don’t get to see it anymore and don’t even have to pay the real price for it directly. The fashion industry is a terrible culprit in this and globalization accelerated this trend circulating pollution, toxicity, waste and trash world wide. Fast fashion reduced many items to de facto one way excitements that are worn only a few times before they are written off or are trashed right away. Sometimes, I find myself buying stuff and not even wearing it a single time. Very few people are fully aware how bad the carbon foot print for fashion is given the synthetic dimension of the materials involved, the coloring, the complicated chain of production, the world wide distribution and transportation. We should also not forget the PR campaigns that are running on enormous computer and communication power grids to bombard people with advertisements and trends.
MARX TOXIC
4 sweaters, 4 dresses with embroideries
embroidery executed by Liu Ya-Nan
viscose dress by Chris[&Carol, 100 % wool, silk screen on felt logo
production: Liu Ya-Nan, Modelling: Adrian Saich, Constance Walsh
MARX TOXIC
--- MARX LIVES IN A GREENHOUSE see below
--- MARX WALKS WITH A BIG CARBON FOOTPRINT
--- MARX DYES WITH POISON
--- MARX WASTES ENERGY AND WATER
--- MARX SWALLOWS PESTICIDES
--- MARX THRIVES ON FAST FASHION
--- MARX CAN'T AFFORD SUSTAINABLE FASHION
--- MARX HATES RECYCLING
MARX TOXIC, MARX SWOLLOWS PESTICIDES, 2013
part of COMME des MARXISTS, 2013
design origin: Comme des Garçon
model: model Florence Walsh
eye wear: Oscar Magnuson
MARX TOXIC, MARX THRIVES ON FAST FASHION, 2013
part of COMME des MARXISTS, 2013
design origin: Comme des Garçon
model: Adrian Saich
MARX TOXIC, LIVES IN A GREENHOUSE, 2013
part of COMME des MARXISTS, 2013
design origin: Comme des Garçon
model: Adrian Saich
the real stuff
this dress contains GRASS
-- real grass, still growing.
(special help - Verena Sprich)