Responses are due by 11am, Sept 20.
It has already become clear in the class that the dynamics of fashion are tied up with different and competing notions of time and temporality. Fashion functions under two (or more) temporal regimes at once: linear forward moving time (in that fashion is constantly looking for the "new," the next big thing and discounting "last year's model." On the other hand, that very "new" thing is usually a revival of something past, so the linear model of fashion time is also cyclical. Some theories of performance, those concerned with repetition and repetition with a difference, are also clearly very concerned with temporality.
For this assignment, take a picture of how fashion might register multiple times at once. Think about some of the different ways Corrigan lays out time and clothing: it could be an outfit that mixes times of day (evening and day?), or outfits that mix different decades, or a personal outfit that mixes your new favorite pieces with old favorites.
What's at stake in the way we wear the complications of time on our bodies? What does this say about time in general? Can we really talk about the successive seasons of fashion when in reality everyone is constantly mixing up the fashions of "now" with the fashions of "before"?
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