Presented by Sky Vermont 

Our relationship to fashion is so defined by consumption that it can be hard to imagine anything different. Welcome to the PLAY magazine library where a fashion collection is flat packed, folded down into an A4 magazine format and freely available to borrow. Could fashions future be one of creativity, tactility and trust?

Straddling the border of garment and published matter, this collection explores the entanglement of fashion, media and consumer culture through a collection of garments that fold down into A4 magazines. Attendees are invited to sign up to PLAY library and borrow a magazine before folding and tying it into a wearable clothing item. Without traditional seams, each garment is constructed through a series of ties and slits cut into the fabric, accessible without any sewing skills or equipment.

PLAY magazine is an attempt to recenter the material, sensory experience of fashion as opposed to focus on image and aesthetic. The magazine excludes images, instead allowing the image of the garment to arise in real time and space as the wearer constructs it. The construction of each garments calls for time and attention, direct experience and tactility each of which is marginalised in our consumer society.