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Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong

Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong Figure 1 to Chinese traditional clothing. The visual and the acoustic parts of our conversation—the colors, the music of Taiwanese aborigines she selects for her shows, and the touch of the fabric she spends months investigating and creating—unfortunately cannot be conveyed through the written medium. Hopefully the pictures included here will give readers an idea of the kind of texts and bodies Sophie Hong is creating with her fashion and her artistic vision. Paola Zamperini: When you are designing a dress, do you think about a man’s or a woman’s body? Or do you just think about the dress? In other words, does gender play a role when you are designing clothes? Hong Lifen: No, because for me clothes are worn by people. I want my clothes to speak and to do so with and to everybody. I have been doing this work since 1977, the time I graduated from design school, so I feel very at ease when I design; the shape of the body is inside my head. The only thing I think about is that it is something that will be worn by someone who lives in this day and age, and I want it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Making Fashion Work: Interview with Sophie Hong

Zamperini, Paola
positions asia critique , Volume 11 (2) – Sep 1, 2003
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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10.1215/10679847-11-2-511
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Figure 1 to Chinese traditional clothing. The visual and the acoustic parts of our conversation—the colors, the music of Taiwanese aborigines she selects for her shows, and the touch of the fabric she spends months investigating and creating—unfortunately cannot be conveyed through the written medium. Hopefully the pictures included here will give readers an idea of the kind of texts and bodies Sophie Hong is creating with her fashion and her artistic vision. Paola Zamperini: When you are designing a dress, do you think about a man’s or a woman’s body? Or do you just think about the dress? In other words, does gender play a role when you are designing clothes? Hong Lifen: No, because for me clothes are worn by people. I want my clothes to speak and to do so with and to everybody. I have been doing this work since 1977, the time I graduated from design school, so I feel very at ease when I design; the shape of the body is inside my head. The only thing I think about is that it is something that will be worn by someone who lives in this day and age, and I want it

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positions asia critique – Duke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2003

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