“It is not possible to change the inner structure of a human being, the inner structure needs to be accepted”.

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In the spirit of Marcuse I will, within this collection, start a search for the true inner structure of ourselves. The collection will contain a physical and a digital collection. Within the physical collection I will be focusing on laying the emphasis on the essential structure of a garment. I consider this as a metaphor for the structure of a personality. Recognizing your true structure, as claimed by Werner Elhar, contributes in creating clarity to strengthen the ability to resist forces that threaten to unconsciously influence the personality. In my garments I will aim for a rejection of the expression of individualism, by making every outfit in the same fabric (calico) and the same color. But by making the construction of every garment different and complicated, focussing on the construction rather than on decorative adornments, I will showcase that we need to accept who we are in the core of our beings, and do not need to promote ourselves with a distorted version of ourselves. As a result of a lack of privacy, capitalist corporations harvest our personal data and use it to manipulate us. To break from this system I think it is necessary to make ourselves unrecognizable for these big corporations who use our face as a fingerprint for our data. Therefore the faces of the individuals wearing the collection will be covered or unrecognizable to avoid surveillance capitalism from taking and manipulating their identity. In my physical collection you will find garments that look ‘unwhole’ but are in fact finished, accepted the way as they are and are still functional. Contrary to Freud, I want to shift the contextual mind state around from needing satisfaction of desires in order to survive, to actually being satisfied and experiencing oneself as whole and complete in the present moment. By using only the essential fabrics that are needed for a garment like, calico, fibre fill, interfacing and canvas, the physical collection will be a representation of a minimalistic view in which I visualize that not so much is needed to accept our inner structure as being whole if even not being fully fulfilled. To visualize the digital manipulation there will be, within some of the garments, ornamental shapes that distort the simplicity of the core structure of the garment. This is metaphorical for how digital manipulation of our unconscious minds can lead to a distorted and mangled version of our true identity. Everything digital is made out of a digital mesh that is the fundament for every digital shape. Therefore these ornamental shapes will be covered by a digital mesh that exaggerates and is distorting the organic shape underneath. The digital collection will take the physical calico (core/ essential) collection as a base but will then be distorted and manipulated because I want to visualize how the rise of digitalization leads to an increase of the possibility to brainwash and control us into a certain identity that fulfils the role of an ideal consumer. Materials will be applied in the digital collection to distract the viewer from the original structure of the garment. The ornamental parts of the garment will digitally be exaggerated and manipulated even more and the digital mesh will be solid so you can’t see the ‘core of the garment’ underneath. As a result, I hope the collection will effectively trick the mind into seeing itself. To create a place spacious and undefined, distinct from the tired old story that our minds continuously tell us about who we are, and with which we ordinarily identify.