Nobody’s Fashion Week
“Fashion is all around us. Fashion is body politics, representation, sustainability, systems. Fashion is a medium that everybody participates in, whether they like it or not. Fashion is Powerful. Nobody’s Fashion Week aims to democratize Fashion by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration, skill-sharing culture and self-expression for everyone. During Covid-19, we have witnessed the current fashion industry crumble as clothing sales go down, shows get cancelled and more people turn to DIY. We ask, with hope: What will be rebuilt in the shell of the previous industry? Who’s Fashion Week is it? Nobody’s Fashion Week is a reimagining of the fashion industry from the bottom up.
Our show was dreamed up as a response to the hegemony, wastefulness and gate-keeping of the corporate fashion industry. Nobody’s Fashion Week is a growing community of independent designers taking agency in redefining our own Fashion Week and proposing alternative systems for Fashion.”
View full press release here.
I had the enormous joy of co-curating this exhibition, alongside Jaime Iglehart, Dew Igworia-Onwuka and Johanna Schwab. Originally intended to be a dynamic in-person show that was a fusion of maker-space, education-space, and exhibition-space, we had to pivot and take the show online due to Covid-19. Nobody’s Fashion Week resulted in a six week virtual exhibition with 30+ artists involved and 40+ public programs, all free and open to the public. We spent 1.5 years bringing this show into fruition, and is an ongoing project. Visit our website for more details and please reach out if you’d like to be involved with future iterations.
September 1 - October 14, 2020
Nobody’s Fashion Week flyers by Lexy Ho-Tai, Juliet Johnson and Johanna Schwab. View more flyers here.
