Day 5: Retrofuturism
As much as we romanticise the past, we are equally fond of idealising the future. The influence of technology and science fiction has led to a particular kind of alien aesthetic that exists outside the contemporary. Is it optimism or fear?
Day 4: Trauma
Finding beauty in the terrible is a coping mechanism and a means of survival. Is it ‘nostalgia’? Not necessarily, but we need to be able to look back without crying. Fashion’s fascination (fetishisation?) with trauma is complicated and sometimes problematic yet undeniably relevant. Life is not always beautiful.
Day 3: Love
Nothing evokes nostalgia quite like love. No matter how anguished, we remember only the best parts of the other person, our memories bathed in soft light and shot from a flattering angle. Fashion frequently taps into this tenderness, yet it is somehow paradoxical - can emotion be an aesthetic?




