Nature, Body and the Garment
"Design is a complex, often elusive phenomenon that has changed dramatically over time by adopting different guises, meanings and objectives in different contexts, but its elemental role is to act as an agent of change, which can help us to make sense of what is happening around us, and how to turn it to our advantage." Rawsthorn, 2013.
"Framing nature as a material and aesthetic source for human use is crude and reflects an anthropocentric world view that has dominated the human relationship with nature for centuries." V&A 2018
"Once designers step away from industrial production and the marketplace we enter the realm of the unreal, the fictional, or what we prefer to think of as conceptual design-design about ideas." Dunne and Raby, 2013.
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"Garments are separate from neither people nor nature, they work between them both, sometimes as a barrier, other times a conduit, and at other times still, a network." Fletcher 2019
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