Sartorial burden

technical description

Tailored wool suit consisting of a single-breasted jacket with shawl lapels, asymmetric sleeves in different coloured cotton, front welt pockets, wide side cuts and contrasting bicolour wool trousers. Worn with a white cotton poplin shirt and a large deconstructed sculpted wool and cotton matching jacket with a maxi shirt collar, hanging sections, decorative panels tied to the suit, knotted laces and a maxi oversized wooden hanger.

Size 2000x1200x850mm, 4900 gr., 2009

concept

An antipathy towards formal wear for its fossilised forms and attributes of depriving individuality. From personal experiences of restricted life in school and the army in Korea where one would be forced to the same hair style and even the same life style. The collection is about questioning the general perception of clothing and showing how to identify individuality from stereotypes. Making transformable clothes that, at first glance, look classical. Using traditional materials for each garment, like white cotton for shirts and flat wool for suits, demonstrating the idea of creating new forms from classical ones, challenging construction rules to suggest diversion. So what apparently looks like a perfect suit transforms into a sleeping bag. Typical forms of garments are used as visual reference for creating new forms: 'Individualising Stereotypes'.

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