Menswear

“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle the trouble waters and rebuild quiet places.” (Donna Haraway)

Why? Why occupy a space which is already so crowded and decided? Because without questioning what exists, why it exists, and offering an alternate perspective, we allow the past to decide the forever shifting future. We simply cannot design without a social consciousness. This is done through learning to unlearn processes that restrict imagination and innovation. Through intervening, adding to, and extending the notions of menswear we look to suggest a space for a renewed consideration through the lens of our perspectives. We are encouraged to approach design from our own lived experiences to reimagine and redefine new voices within menswear. Our ability to impact our relationships with others through supportive networks and the outer world begins with the internal power we choose to project. By not striving to be everything but continuing to ask questions and having a willingness to learn, we begin that shift and in-turn we encourage and strengthen each other to shape the zeitgeist.

“Alone together” is how we collectively began this MA and this is what roots our collective experience in our current physical world. And now it’s about defining success for ourselves.

- Text by Shanti Bell & Ffian Jones

Image Credit: Shanti Bell