Nothing Really Matters.

Perceptions and states of creative uncertainty in the arts have often been informed and sustained, even if unconsciously so, by aspects of Eastern, Buddhist, or Taoist philosophy. These attitudes can teach us that the idea of “nothingness” may be definitive in order for us to extend a reach and scope of life.

Depending upon one’s viewpoint, such notions may be significant in that they challenge conventional cultures of objectification, consumption and materialism and help focus awareness on what is left behind, unnoticed or disregarded.

This is an idea that may become a progressively applied aspect of fashion practice, where the discipline seeks to auspiciously reject physical form in order to nourish complimentary cultures of reductionism. Where attention may progressively shift from the ‘object-garment’ to the ‘idea-garment,’ expanded criteria might develop that encapsulates a concentrated ‘presence of fashion.’