This work challenges the conventional focus of fashion photography, prioritising the generation of a bizarre atmosphere over the aesthetic presentation of garments. Combining photography with performance, the model’s body is deliberately obscured or fragmented. This visual discontinuity prevents immediate deciphering of the relationship between body and garment, producing a sense of instability and an unfamiliar visual rhythm.

The project treats the closet as a living archive of layered histories and industrial time. Rather than altering garments, their existing traces—frayed edges and discolouration—are preserved and combined into uncanny forms. This process functions as a psychological provocation, subtly encouraging awareness of the global labour conditions embedded within production.

Labels and country-of-origin tags are approached as material representations of global capital and invisible labour structures. The work is presented as a large-scale print measuring 100 × 150 cm, requiring a physical confrontation with the image. Through this lens, vintage garments are not nostalgic objects but archival materials. Photography operates here as a provocation rather than an explanation, directing the gaze toward the economic and social realities condensed within the material form.