Fashion is pain

For this assignment i requested facebook friends, instagram followers, and even discord friends to assist me in my project. The following is the prompt I set up for them:

What is your favorite type of clothing that you would like to wear? Please draw it and send it to me on the general page. Please @christopherlng753 So I can know it’s mine. Need it for a project, can be drawn of copy/ pasted.

Althought only less than 10 people responded to me with photos and drawings: I started by editing them in order to remove any aspects of people they drew, or were included into the. photos they sent to me. With the clothing I recieved from the people who responded to me: I decided to make it into a collage that eventually turned into a portrait. With the each clothing article as a part of the face. Even the handbag made a great background pattern to make the background less bland.Overall: I ended up making a collage to make a protrait that emphasizes the sad nature of mass produced clothing.

smith Reason why I decided to make this is bring up the issue of commercial clothing production, and how harmful they are to the environment, and even to the people who make the goods. From the simple Tshirtyou wear: to the gucci handbags you see on sale: there are poor, underpaid factory workers who made them in poor, cramped, conditions in southeast asia, and even as far as in India. The clothes factories are owned by big clothing brands like H&M in order to maximize profit with less production cost. This has forced people who own the factories to put their workers to work in working conditions that would be considered: illegal in the united states. Basically: these workers are made to work with poor wages, no benefits, and in conditions that are the same as the industrial revolution. The only difference: is that the big clothing brands have outsourced their labor to avoid any legal responsibibilites for their production for the sake of profit. So when you wear something. fancy: remember those who made that piece of clothing, and remember how oppressed they are because of the system that made your piece of clothing.