The object I chose was this wool “Body Stitch” jacket designed for Virgil Abloh’s Off White as Off White’s first collection after Abloh’s death. It caught my eye as a fan of Virgil Abloh and his work seeing the impressive embroidery of anatomical chest and torso made me wonder what it represented. After reading the description, learning the symbolism of the garment as to how it comments on what is masculine and what is feminine and how standardized garments conceal the identity and individuality of the wearer. The jackets embroidery marks the wearer as either male or female regardless of the wearers gender talking about how the exterior is superficial.
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