Tinsel Town
My weekends have been filled with trying to squeeze in 10 minute photoshoots for Instagram, which is the only thing making me feel connected to other humans beings at the moment, and the rest of the weekend taking care of household stuff that I cannot fit in during the week as I literally have no minutes free. I am now at that pathetic stage of such overwhelming stress I cry and shout at my computer as I work.
My lovely friend, bless her, has been trying to get me to take a day off to try and unwind, and that day was supposed to be Tuesday where we would take a jaunt to Edinburgh to try ballet shoes, which is pointless anyway for me as I’ve had to sack off ballet but that’s another story I’m sure no one is interested in anyway, but of course more work has come in which means no days off for Michelle.
We talk a lot about mental health, on here and everywhere, and as an extremely emotionally resilient person, people like me are often overlooked as it’s assumed we are all able to cope and we are left to our own devices. No one checks in on us, no one asks us if we’re ok, just because we don’t tell everyone we are struggling. It’s a very lonely place to exist. I am fortunate to have a young person friend who does check on me because young people are very good at things like that. Anyway enough of that.
I am sharing the work of recent Central St Martins graduate Tze-Yang Huang. It’s clothes made of tinsel. Of course they aren’t wearable but they sparkle and they are helluva fun. The brown one looks like a Tinsel Yeti.
“My collection is inspired by my military experience back in Taiwan, which is mandatory for all Taiwanese boys. I found it interesting to talk about my own military experience through the art of clothing. People perceive it as suffering, but to me, it’s more of a process to turn the boys into men, which is the reason why I capture those military moments through my biggest passion, fashion. The army’s life and rules serve as the foundation of this collection, which includes the notions of camouflage, haircut, body armors, helmet, and uniform.”
