PANDICIEL

PERFORMANCE, EXHIBITION AND ANALYSIS

Introducing P’andiciel

the deepest haute couture magazine

P’andiciel is a magazine created by young visual and conceptional artists, members of Panda artgroup, a community of anarcho-fashionists, reconstructing contemporary ideas of synthesis – cultural, aesthetic, environmental, mass media based and spiritual.

The seasonal catwalk-show and printed magazine deliver a visual impact that fuses a unique blend of discourse, material and global symbolism. Pandas wear recycled ideas and materials. Like punks used artifacts of haute couture, Pandiciel takes found and used materials, recreates them to document our failures and trials as people and societies, as fashionvictims and creators of illusion.

The rich try to look poorer, the poor try to look richer.

Pandas wear the result.

Cross breeding of bling, holey knitwear, world weary cloths, trash trawled cast-off garments and waste, fake labels, pompous and self-referencing irony. Multiplicity of signs and styles. Outer environment become clothing for the body turned inside out.

We wear our hearts on our sleeves. We are what we eat. Our coffee time around our waist, grass on our feet. Our tongues out of our cheeks.

Pandas wear!
...products of our moral and social belonging and anxiety.

Failure – to – clean-under-the sink – mould dress, housing developments tug at our skirts. A lapdog, the hollywood fashion accessory becomes part of the loose thread of a garment. Toiletroll wig adorns a proud head like renessaince new wave perm. Waste becomes ceremony like the sacrificial virgin.

Our range of clothing falls into 2 categories.

Firstly our ready-mades.

These take the form of what we term national postfolk. These are styled from urban and non-urbanized environments, garnered from visual impressions from such sources as public transport, tv, childhood memories and fashion magazines. They reflect the mass influence of high street clothing which has become a part of national everyday subconciousness. Without being aware, every nation interprets the myriad of fashion offerings in its own particular idiom. From mix and match, tasteless and tasteful, cheap and flashy. Hand-me downs brush up against haute couture knock-offs, staple designs with retro, mum and dads cast-offs with sportstars, sponsorship deals. Pandiciel polishes the gloomy, throws new life into old threads.

Our exclusive label pieces are our one-off bespoke outfits. These are based on specific environmental impressions and characteristics and reflect the people and their personal relationship with their chosen profession and environment. From coal miners to cooks, farmers to factory workers how we dress performatively in our lives and how this makes us act. We use waste products and materials associated with different environments to bring beauty and nobility to seemingly drab or overlooked existence.

Pandiciel would like to tour its fashion show to 7 little towns all around Europe. From each town we will make and take 2 costumes, one ready-made and one exclusive label, to replace 2 original garments. In this way by the end of the tour we will have 14 new creations from all over Europe from which to make a special European Edition Pandiciel. We will need to identify and work closely with two visual artists in each town as well as corporating with venues for the show, local and national media, etc. Local knowledge is key to identify the spiritual essence of environmental-based fashions. Only those with intimate knowledge of their area, dress, people and customs, can identify the national postfolk dress and environmental and cultural factors which make up the dresscode and attitude of locals. We would need one week studiospace provided in each town for the formation of the costumes, storage for the travelling show and open studio for local artists.

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