An alternative fashion system is currently nestled amongst the folded seats of a disused cinema in Arnhem. There, some 100 or so works of art, sculpture and fashion make up this year’s edition of the State of Fashion Biennale, ‘Ties that Bind’.
The exhibition focuses on how artists from the global south are addressing and contesting the colonial legacies embedded in clothing and cloth. Its ideas are rooted in the intimacy of fabric, the universal familiarity of clothing and the urgent need to change the fashion system.
