Sizes, trends, rules of styling, the gaze of others.
Garments obey external standards, and their lifespans are dictated not by the body’s growth, but by the churn of fashion.
The T-shirt is perhaps the clearest symbol of this: mass-produced, mass-consumed, standardized.
Once, we outgrew our clothes. Now, clothes outgrow us.
As trends accelerate, the distance between body and garment only widens.
I find myself drawn to what falls outside this cycle.
My grandmother was a weaver.
The cloth she made was slow — shaped by rhythm, intuition, and care rather than efficiency or correctness.
Such textiles cultivate attachment; they follow a timeline separate from consumption.
My work is created on that timeline.
First, I print the outline of a slim body onto a T-shirt.
Then, I unravel the fibers by hand, to expand the garment.
Finally, the garment dresses a body.
It is a reversal: a too-small garment transformed into something belonging to no single idealized form.
An act of holding discomfort without correcting it.
This is not a rejection of society, but an embrace — a way to re-examine and affirm both ourselves and the clothes we choose to wear.
Material: Cotton, Polyester, Button
Supported by: Seiko Epson Corporation
Photography by YASUNARI KIKUMA / ©︎ FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM
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