Movana Chen – Magazine-Knit
18. August 2009 Art & Fashion, Knitwear
If on the streets, in studios or on runways – If it´s fashion, sooner or later, media is on the track.
Fashion magazines and fashion blogs, TV and online networks massively inspire and affect our common sense of style, decipher fashion codes of different subcultures and influence our collective taste.
No matter if we like or not, the brotherhood of fashion and media is a strong one, vivid because of continuous cross-fertilizing and growing since online users actively contribute.
Movana Chen, a Hong Kong-based artist and curator, calls this strong relationship into question. Is fashion making media? Is media making fashion? Where are the borders of observation and interaction?
What is the system of communication between individuals, fashion and media?
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