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Art, Avant Garde, Avant Garde Fashion, Comme des Garçons, Dandism, dandy, Design, fashion, High Fashion, J. Wong, neo, neodandi, new york
The feeling of garments being designed on me, specifically, is like wearing gloves similarly to tailor suits made specifically to the specification of my physique. The designs flow and flourish on me like a new language is formed to speak on my behalf without words. Assuredly, such design emerged as it flows on me like a story is written and rewritten. A new story is told. Such identity liberates and transcends form and limitation. Hence, transformation of convergence is developed.
Imagination of feeling takes on generous permission to expound and elaborate, collaboratively. There is an upward and forward lifting in how I feel in Neodandi design. Such lifting exists with or without awareness. When what is worn is one with the person, what is worn would become inseparable with the person. The flow of design – for lack of a better description – blends with the person. This is a single feeling, solely, captivated in one person, at one time. Such feeling is not necessarily transferable, but imaginably experiential as one desires to perceive. Thus, the same piece is feeling differently from person to person. In other words, even the same piece is on a different model would make the feeling different, yet sharing a consensual lifestyle.
There are yet times when words do not speak all the feelings enthralled in a piece of art. Those feelings are to best left unsaid, untold. Aesthetics are not always told in words, while words are not capable of narrating or describing Neodandi. Au contraire, words often are prescriptive when damages are inadvertent, unavoidable. Therefore, the irreconcilable tension prevails between connotation and denotation.
To me, design never finishes. Neither will it ever be complete. Only in the measure of time, is a design considered finished, completed. At each show, at each fitting, at each modeling, design in fact changes in context. A different model will be wearing a piece designed on me that that conjures new perspectives of the design, so will the event and the setting do justice to the change. Such change can be thought of as perfecting the design, and, or, completing the design, as well as to be conceived as finishing the design. In these punctuated moments, design continues on to the process of perfection and completion.
~J. Wong