DIRTY CIRCUS // POSTCARD PACK
611 East State Street
DIRTY CIRCUS // COUTURE
Meat Jerky Crayon Collage Club
DIRTY CIRCUS // MISSION STATEMENT
It's a Dirty Circus
INTRODUCTION
Dirty Circus Couture is the capitulation of party form to party function. It is circus contrivances re-mastered by dirty incidentals. The circus aspect is painstakingly contrived. The dirty aspect is strictly unintended.
IMPLICATIONS
Heartfelt dedication to design is never so exhaustively attended by acquiescence to external impositions as within the realm of Dirty Circus. Together, dedication to contrivances and acquiescence to incidentals manifest the lifecycle of wear and redesign. Transparency showcases design intentions and the impact on these intentions by limitations of resources including time, skill, and material.
TAXONOMY
Dirty Circus Couture is taxonomically contiguous to and philosophically divorced from two stylistic classifications of lesser cultural significance: Fucked-up Party Doll and Tomboy Prom Queen. The former leans unbalanced toward contrivance over incidence, the latter, the reverse.
DISTINCTIONS
Starting out with dirt before the circus has begun is not the same as Dirty Circus.
DEFINITIONS
In the context of Dirty Circus Couture, dirty means possessing physical qualities that are unsanitary or disarranged. Circus means silliness that is as otherworldly as it is accessible. Couture means tailored to unique specifications. Dirty Circus Couture brandishes against imperial fashions standardized by top-down control visual moments that cannot be understood as fully conscious design decisions nor as fully accidental happenstance, and is defined by this singular characteristic.
PURPOSE
Dirty Circus Couture captures these moments, explicates their awkwardness and strings them together into a narrative collection, an aesthetic discourse on ambiguity.