fleeting constructions

The construction of a fashion show takes place over months, but the observer’s experience of the show is momentary. The poetic beauty of the presentation is in movement; the model inhabiting the piece and walking through a physical setting. The runway is the stage upon which the show comes to life. No longer only just an elevated boardwalk for the audience to sit on either side, designers are now using occupied buildings, unused buildings, even outdoor spaces to frame the context of their collections. In this dynamic relationship between architecture and presentation, exists a fleeting construction of fantastical motion. Of poetry. Double exposure yields a way to SEE these poetic fragments where time is frozen in one frame and stitched together with another. Hard to calculate, they are collisions of timing which render a different perception of the work from that perhaps the designer even intended. Transparency allows for the overlap of different frames and a kind of collage that binds the model, the textiles and the place of the show together. It is this new blended image which describes that which normally goes unseen.