WORKS ELABORATION:
Fashion will be multi-dimensional, decentralized and digital, which is the author’s non-linear prediction for the future of fashion. Looking three hundred years ahead to the development of human civilization and technology, the property of “clothing” will evolve under technological changes, and the relationship between clothing and the human body may be separated from that between things and people. Based on this, the author envisages and presents three stages of future “clothing”: smart – the ultimate functionalization of wearing; symbiotic – a gene-edited garment that is parasitic on the human body and becomes part of it; independent – the “clothing” exists independent from the human body, growing and reproducing itself and moving spontaneously.
TUTOR COMMENT:
Based on the digital context, Zheng Mengze’s work is an artistic vision of the relationship between clothes and body, objects and people in the future of fashion, which is highly experimental and forward-looking. The final work takes fashion as the carrier, the evolution of clothes as the logic, and digital images as the medium, showing his thoughts on the non-linear development of fashion in the future under technological changes.
-- Yu Yimeng