GOSPELIZING: CHAPTER UNO
If fashion is a language, then labels are its key words. Brand labels can communicate complex things about class, identity, and culture on a surface smaller than the palm of your hand. A lot of importance and power is placed on these small objects because we use them to define ourselves, fit in with some, and distance ourselves from others.
We want to question that.
What makes something belong to a brand?
What real value do labels hold?
If you stitch our label on a garment we haven’t made, has it been gospelized?
If not, what has it become?