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In search of appearance: rites of passage through the work of Hussein Chalayan

Tokatlidis Charalampos

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Hussein Chalayan is an exceptional case of creator and this could be asserted from numerous viewpoints. Born in Nicosia in 1970, raised in his birthplace as much as in London and a graduate in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins. From 1993 and on he conducts artistic research around the relation of the body with time and space though the design of collections which are shown firmly in fashion weeks under his own label, but without being limited to that. The significance of his work is located early on in making performances out of his fashion shows, referring to current sociopolitical issues as a unique approach in the fashion industry and in applying transformative technology on garments. Nevertheless a constant revolutionary aspect in his interdisciplinary work that relates to exploring emerging and unconventional human activity and making an unorthodox intersemiotic use of media is not sufficiently studied. The following research on the work of the designer aims at an exploration of its aesthetics concerned with the political subject. Chalayan manages the imposition of a dialectical relation with the viewer by weaving non-verbal aesthetic mechanisms in different ways, which now could be examined as language.

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