THE LAST FASHION - a collection to die for Watch the show here: www.copenhagenfashionweek.tvhttp://www.copenhagenfashionweek.tv/shapeimage_1_link_0
The Last Fashion is a collection inspired by the death penalty and designed for inmates on the American Death Row to wear on their execution day. The collection was revealed August 9th 2008 at a spectacular fashion show in Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen, during Copenhagen Fashion Week 08, and this week the show is completed with an exhibition at Martin Asbæk Projects, Copenhagen. Fashion communicates. Fashion gives us the opportunity and the right to show who we are as individuals. Fashion can show who we are, where we are coming from and what we believe in. The Last Fashion brings focus on the death penalty in the US. Death row prisoners have no longer the right to act as individuals. They are isolated. It is of no interest who they are, where they are coming from and what they believe in. They are already dead. The collection, The Last Fashion, is a unique design that offers the forgotten, hidden person to make an individual choice, dying, not as ”the inhuman other”, but as a human like any other. Thus the collection will be sold as the last set of clothes to death row prisoners. In accordance with US prison budgets the clothes are sold at a prize of USD 39,95. During the course of working with the collection, Evaristti has visited Gene Hathorn, an inmate on Texas Death Row. Processing through a slow and bureaucratic system drawings and poems by Hathorn has since then been sent to Evaristti. These things are incorporated in Evaristti´s work, thus opening and putting forward what is hidden, untold of and isolated. The Last Fashion is Marco Evaristti´s contribution to individualizing forgotten human beings thereby undermining the anonymous death. The Last Fashion fashion show: Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen, August 9th 2008 at 20h Collection designed by Marco Evaristti in collaboration with A.M. Victoria Ladefoged (MA fashion, Royal College of Art) Music composed for the show by Lars H.U.G Idea developed with writer Martin Martensen-Larsen Consultant: Klaus Samsøe Press: http://www.art-magazin.de/ article by Clemens Bomsdorf http://www.weekendavisen.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/KULTUR/708080036 - interview with Martin Krasnik http://ibyen.dk/gadeplan/article548994.ece - article by Nils Thorsen http://www.art-magazin.de/http://www.weekendavisen.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080808/KULTUR/708080036http://ibyen.dk/gadeplan/article548994.eceshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2