A critical look at fast fashion. A call for conscious consumption.
The exhibition uses historical objects and artistic works to shed light on key aspects of the fast fashion industry: from fashion aimed at women to the exploitation of female workers and environmental impacts. Art and culture offer the opportunity to address topics such as sustainability, consumption and gender and thus create awareness for positive change.
How are consumption and sustainability, fashion and gender connected? Who makes our clothes and under what conditions are they made? What does fashion do to us and what do we do to it? The exhibition sees itself as a platform to explore these complex interdependencies. It takes a critical, feminist look at fast fashion and highlights the connections between consumer behavior and the exploitation of women worldwide. Constantly new trends, textile giants that bring dozens of new collections onto the market every year under precarious production conditions, shredded new goods from international luxury labels and the destruction of ecosystems through mountains of textile waste: fashion and the fashion industry are increasingly in the spotlight in terms of consumer behavior, manufacturing processes and sustainability.
From November 24, the Hittisau Women's Museum will then be the venue for historical objects, contemporary design and artistic positions for a whole year, providing impetus for an examination of current issues of our time. Our fashion consumption can be read as a paradigm for mass consumption in the capitalist society of the Global North.
November 24, 2024 to October 31, 2025
Women's Museum Hittisau from the exhibition "Stoffwechsel" Sylvie Fleury © Frauenmuseum Hittisau
