The New Times Project

This project is a way to make the works of a selection of fashion designers engage with contemporary politics. It makes links between the themes in their projects and current issues in society today. Through the collection of the International New York Times newspaper as a starting point, I developed a method to link current news stories to the work and themes of contemporary designers. In this way I curate a new narrative for their work. This manifests in two ways, a series of interventions or performances in particular public spaces that start conversations and a display that brings together the documentation of all of these interventions into a cohesive whole. This shows the different connections between a particular article and each designers’ practice. It also illustrates the curatorial method as a way of creating a dialogue between contemporary politics and fashion design. The project generates experiences through interventions; positioning the work of each designer in a particular space alongside a current news article which captures a particular moment in time. Curating fashion in this way establishes its role in social and political discourses of our time.