Photography and Text by Jingwen (Felix) Qiang
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The Uncommon In Common
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What is fashion? What does fashion represent? Probably in common sense that the word fashion relates to the words such as New York City, Paris, celebrities, big luxury brands names, models etc. Everything seems unreachable in our daily life. However, as photography plays a documenting and collaborating role in many aspects including fashion, I use photography to express my approach to “fashion”— as a way for people to comfortably present themselves in terms of their own fashion aesthetics.
The essence of fashion not only shows in one’s beauty or taste, but also reflects a part of their soul and their inner self. In this series of photos, I choose to photograph people on the street because the street is a public space that most people have been observed by others in the way they like to present themselves.
I also specifically selected a variety of people ranging from the fashion stylist in New York Fashion Week to the ordinary people in West Philadelphia. Not only good design in the outfits makes one stand out, but also, most importantly – ordinary people make their outfit alive without having a luxurious outfit.
Fashion is accessible to everyone—professional stylists, students, workers, filmmakers etc. Because they are presenting themselves by making their own choices with outfit, I see their soul shining from their outfit. On the one hand, some celebrities have destroyed some well-designed luxurious fashion outfits. On the one hand, more ordinary people saved fashion when they made the “common” apparel look special and shining.
Photography and Text by Jingwen (Felix) Qiang
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About The Author: Jingwen (Felix) Qiang is enrolled as an exchange student from Bryn Mawr College at the University of Pennsylvania.
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