Utopia in Mind.

Conjectural CreativityFictional FashionSpeculative Futures
Written By Simon Thorogood

Notable architectural practitioners, idealists and theorists habitually created speculative space for open-ended, theoretical, and unrealised practice and philosophy.

 

Examples can be found in the work of Etienne-Louis Boullée’s Cénotaphe à Newton (1784), Gaudi’s Grand Hotel Attraction (1908), Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin for Paris (1925), the neo-futuristic Archigram group (c. 1961), ideologue Cedric Price’s Fun Palace (1961), or Walt Disney’s EPCOT Project X (1966).

 

Can we determine such occasion, condition and space for fashion to be increasingly grand, but ‘not there?’

Simon Thorogood

Design thinker, fashion speculator, creative consultant and academic based in London.

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