Or there's threeASFOUR, a fashion collective whose clothes are as weird as their name, who'll stage an event with "edible couture dresses" not in some abandoned outer-borough factory, but in the Fifth Avenue townhouse that houses the Jewish Museum.
Though run as a collective, where even clothes are shared as common property, it owes its being to an overlord.
Groups range from the Dirty Girls, a collective which retrieves wet clothes discarded by refugees on the beaches and cleans them ready for reuse, to No Border Kitchen, an anarchist kitchen crew from Germany, which for several months cooked thousands of meals a day for refugees near the island's main ferry port.
Groups range from the Dirty Girls, a collective that retrieves wet clothes discarded by refugees on the beaches and cleans them ready for reuse, to No Border Kitchen, an anarchist kitchen crew from Germany, which for several months cooked thousands of meals a day for refugees near the island's main ferry port.
The collective power of everyone wearing clothes treated with CatClo is extraordinary.
"The law hasn't gotten to the depths of prejudice if gay marriage ignores our collective trauma in favor of clothes, makeup and honeymoons".
But I was thinking the other day, before the start of Thakoon Panichgul's show at the Dia Art Foundation, how there is nothing like the thrill of a show that promises news and the collective desire to wear the clothes.
Manchester Stitched Up: run by Kelly Joseph, Emily Wade and Bryony Moore, the grassroots collective offers drop-in sessions, clothes swap events, sewing machine hire and social gatherings in an attempt to offer a real community space that's an alternative to high street chains.
And it was somehow a mature smell, reminding me now of the collective B.O. of my grandmother's clothes when I got a whiff of them all together in her closet.
Vestiaire Collective, the French pre-owned luxury clothes marketplace, has picked up a $37 million Series D round as it aims to bed down on recent expansion to the U.S. and continue to expand to further European markets.
