Foreign Bodies by Jonathan Mist
on 16/5/11
Jonathan Mist's Foreign Bodies collection, fits well with the Autumn Winter 2012-13 trend 'Fragility'.
Jonathan graduated from The London College of Fashion with a Masters degree in Fashion Photography in 2009. The collection is a selection of clothes found in the countryside, industrial estates, beaches, car parks, walkways and railway sections in the South of England : torn jeans, rippeds gloves, lost shoe and jackets all consumed by damp. The aim of his work is to provide an insight into the questions of throw away fashion. Whilst it aims to shift away from the traditions of fashion photography, attempts are also made to study their defects and penetrate their exterior to seek and recall the existence of memory.
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Hooded Coat in Sand - Jonathan Mist
The artist found Mother Nature had begun its process of decomposing and growing over each item. It occurred to him that throw away fashion was causing a threat to our environment, causing him to investigate and find that 3.1 million tonnes of Co2, 2million tonnes of waste and 70 million tonnes of water is wasted per year in the textile industry.
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Ripped Brown Sock - Jonathan Mist
Treating each item as a preserved specimen, methods were used to examine and extract memory. To accompany this, a scanner, a device normally associated for restoring images, was used as an abiding archival mechanism to record phenomenal amounts of detail. It was the significant loss of definition to each item of clothing that the scanner was unable to copy. In ‘Foreign Bodies’ it examines that a memory can not entirely be retrieved. It reveals that a memory is in the past moment, one that remains lost with the identity. Ultimately it is the process and hidden depths of a photograph that expose the potential to distort and conceal memory.
The Trend Boutique love the techinque that has been used to create this collection which has a haunted feel about them, bringing each item to life and makes the viewer question their origin.
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Brown Shoe - Jonathan Mist
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White High Heel - Jonathan Mist
