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credits
Soya (Performer) . Maison Blanche / Yannik Zamboni (Costume) . Susanne Stein (Headpiece) . Daniel Hellmann (Makeup)

II.

frozen

excerpt
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To observe the latest in sartorial trends, a fashion school is probably second only to a catwalk. And of all the manifestations of fashion, hair: overgrown, shaved, coloured, combed, decorated or unkempt, is perhaps the most ubiquitous. In 2014, when I started teaching at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, I was intrigued by the myriad of individual performances, often deliberate and sometimes subconscious, that would play out in my class. The students were from diverse backgrounds, and their hair reflected the diversity. It was fascinating to observe how, based on geography, gender, sexuality, class or caste, the characteristics of one's hair changed and signified freedom, defiance, conformity or obedience. Inspired by Victorian-era post-mortem photographs that attempted to freeze the transient, this project explores individuality and norms, as represented through hair, within the microcosm of a fashion school in Calcutta.

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references
Biddle-Perry, Geraldine, and Sarah Cheang. Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Klanten, Robert. Hair'em Scare'em. Edited by S. Ehmann and M. Hubner, Die Gestalten Verlag, 2009.
Philippon, Laurent. Hair: Fashion and Fantasy. Thames & Hudson, 2013.

III.

extension of body / alina kopytsa

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IV.

an amber-afternoon eulogy / megha roy

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Model: Megha Roy / @megha_roy94