Serious Stupid 100 Layers of T-Shit (R-18)
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2013
Author: Mao Usami
Medium: Viscose jersey, cotton jersey and paint
Object number: FA.2013.108.101.CC
Description100 T-shirts that make up a layered outfit. T-shirts all white apart from 1 blue and 1 red, all contained in a canvas bag with '2//6' hand-painted on front relating to the look number in the collection. Winner of L'oreal Professional Award 2013.
This is the most legit outfit of my whole collection to show the concept “Unisexy”.
It could be just a set of 100 T-shirts, but they were made very carefully. Each layer is graded up by 2 millimetres which, aside from the concept of “to unit sexuality”, represents my journey questioning the fundamentals of clothing. The ode I noted is “I asked my white T-shirt: ‘What is the fashion?’/ ‘What is the humour seriously?’/ ‘What is the sexuality?’/ ‘What, What, What…. What?’/”
Trying them on is a practice in understanding how T-shirts think/feel by gradually becoming the exact shape of “t”. It is the ironic reverse of the obedience of a cloth towards a body.
Taking them off is another practice, where you become conscious of your own body, nakedness, or the seam of your body.
It is a mechanism to microscope the physical and mental relation between you and the cloth.
Some of the T-shirts have a printed slogan on them, but this isn’t a word aimed at society. It is more for self-assurance, so the printings are all very subtle, using the exact same printing pigment as the colour of the fabric it’s printed on.
This is the most legit outfit of my whole collection to show the concept “Unisexy”.
It could be just a set of 100 T-shirts, but they were made very carefully. Each layer is graded up by 2 millimetres which, aside from the concept of “to unit sexuality”, represents my journey questioning the fundamentals of clothing. The ode I noted is “I asked my white T-shirt: ‘What is the fashion?’/ ‘What is the humour seriously?’/ ‘What is the sexuality?’/ ‘What, What, What…. What?’/”
Trying them on is a practice in understanding how T-shirts think/feel by gradually becoming the exact shape of “t”. It is the ironic reverse of the obedience of a cloth towards a body.
Taking them off is another practice, where you become conscious of your own body, nakedness, or the seam of your body.
It is a mechanism to microscope the physical and mental relation between you and the cloth.
Some of the T-shirts have a printed slogan on them, but this isn’t a word aimed at society. It is more for self-assurance, so the printings are all very subtle, using the exact same printing pigment as the colour of the fabric it’s printed on.