Ephemeral clothing
Experimental Packaging
Consumerism of Plants imagines a future where pollution and overconsumption push society to collapse. I constructed a jacket from living plants, staging it as a retail product that inevitably withers and decays. The piece critiques the volatility of fast fashion and asks how culture might commodify even nature itself as resources run out.
Project Contribution
01
Concept development and research
02
Speculative narrative construction
03
Material experimentation and fabrication
04
Photography and documentation
05
Critical reflection and presentation
Context & Critical Framework
The project responds to the environmental impact of fast fashion, particularly the industry’s reliance on short-lived trends and disposable materials. By staging the garment as a retail object, the work mirrors familiar consumer aesthetics while introducing an unavoidable endpoint: decomposition.
This tension highlights how design can normalize unsustainable cycles even as it claims to innovate.
Reminaging fashion
The jacket was constructed using living plant materials and documented over time as it shifted from new to decomposed. This transformation becomes central to the project, revealing how value in fashion is often tied to appearance rather than lifespan.
By presenting decay as part of the narrative, the work reframes clothing as a system shaped by time, consumption, and loss, rather than novelty alone.
Designing for Impermanence
Ephemeral Clothing positions impermanence as a critical lens, rather than a limitation. The project challenges the expectation that fashion must endure, proposing instead that temporality can expose the consequences of overproduction and excess.
Through speculative design, the work invites reflection on how cultural habits, design practices, and environmental impact are tightly entangled.