MCA Clothing Exchange
Will you find the cast-offs of swish fashionistas, or will art lovers' choice of clothes be the strangest cut of all?
Overview
It wasn't long ago that the MCA wore no clothes at all. But for the duration of the Biennale, with Lee Mingwei's Mending Project in-house, it's taking a closer interest in the stitched article. And one of its approaches is to take on what was a new idea not too long ago but is now standard: find a group of like-minded fashion-lovers, bone them up on the value of recycling over consumption and get them together for an orgy of swapping stuff they have already.
For the Biennale, the MCA is throwing its hat in the ring. To swap for said hat, you're encouraged to bring up to 10 nice-enough and no-longer-loved articles of clothing for the MCA Clothing Exchange, for swapping with other like-minded cohabiters of art and fashion. Will you find the cast-offs of swish fashionistas, or will art lovers' choice of clothes be the strangest cut of all?
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