MY FIRST SEMESTER OF 3RD YEAR AND I PARTICIPATED IN A DENIM STUDIO. WITH NO RESTRICTION INTO EXPLORATION I HAVE CHOSEN TO FOCUS ON THE IDEA OF BLURRING GENDERS. JUDITH BUTLERS BOOK “GENDER TROUBLE” FORMED A BEGINNING INFLUENCE FOR MANY OF MY CONCEPTUAL IDEAS  “IF WE ASSUME SEX IS BIOLOGICAL, AND GENDER IS CULTURALLY CONSTRUCTED, THEN THE TWO CONCEPTS ARE INDEPENDENT OF ONE ANOTHER. SHE ARGUES AGAINST A STRICT BINARY ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SEX AND GENDER, AS WELL AS BETWEEN GENDER TYPES.” (BUTLER,1990) THIS IDEA THAT GENDER CAN BE PURELY BASED ON ONES APPEARANCE AND THE WAY THEY DRESS IS SOMETHING THAT RESONATED WITH ME. LIKE JUDITH BUTLER I WISH TO OPPOSE THIS DEFINITE LINE BETWEEN MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY IN GENERATING A BLUR BETWEEN GENDERS. ALTHOUGH HAVING NOT COMPLETED THE STUDIO YET, I HAVE INCLUDED SOME OF MY CURRENT EXPLORATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS

 

"A DE-CONSTRUCTION OF A LINE WE CONSTRUCTED"

GENDER IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

DRAWING UPON THE CONCEPT OF CONSTRUCT AND CONSTRUCTION AS A MEANS OF MARKING THE LITERAL DIVISION BETWEEN THE GENDERED USE OF ONE GARMENT. JUXTAPOSING TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTS OF GENDERED FASHION IN GENERATING GARMENTS THAT REPRESENT THE BLURING OF GENDERS - LEAVING THE DESCION OF GENDER COMPLETLY AT THE LIBERTY OF THE WEARER IN HOW THEY CHOOSE TO STYLE A GARMENT. INSIPRED THROUGH THE WORDS OF THEORISTS JUDITH BUTLER AND HER APPROACH TO GENDER AS A PERFORMANCE RATHER THEN AN ASSUMPTION.MOREOVER WITHTHE HISTORY OF DENIM BEING SUCH A STRONG SIGNIFIER OF FREEDOM AND GENDER EQUALITY, JEANS IN PARTICULAR ALWAYS BEING A UNIFYING GARMENT THAT BREAK DOWN CLASSES AND BRING TOGETHER GENDERS STIMULATED THE CONCEPTUAL IDEA INTERRUPTING THE TRADITIONS OF GENDERED FASHION.