auto renewal subscriptions you don’t know how to cancel. clothing is a fault of consensus. clothing is easily weaponized.

fight pain, anxiety and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art,’

For Syms, her choice of clothing is a conscious, creative act, of pleasure, of curiosity, of intelligence.

‘We wore white because we were Buddhists, doing drugs, part of a dance company, pacifists, the last of the hippies or all of the above.’

committed suicide early on, unable to bear the situation in which I found myself.’

A total kitten heel: demure, but secretly racy.

This was not precision tailoring. Giacometti would be elbow-deep in clay, and still be wearing a tweed jacket. At work or rest, his tailoring was a permanent companion. A suit’s power is often assumed to come from neatness. Giacometti had no need for tidiness to exert control.

Any artist who wears a suit, whatever their gender position, must contend with this encoded meaning of male power. There is no way to escape it. It is up to them how they use, exploit or challenge it.

Clothes had carried the weight of her abandonment, grief, pain, sense of failure. Through her life, garments had first been decorative, then dutiful. At the end of her life, clothing was a release.