This is Chronophobia:
A fear that enhances the sense of time passing and defines the dread of moving forward.
This is Collective:
A forum within which items beloved for their charm in a specific time of one’s life can be passed along to fulfill new potential.
Applied to a wardrobe, passage of time is represented as “what I wore when…” A certain dress when happy, a certain sweater when confident, a certain pair of jeans when strong. Clothes are a visceral part of those moments. The dread comes when time passes, when that moment is not “now” but “then”. It was. Past tense. Sometime ago. The fear of “what is” changes to “what was”. That physicality is lost forever as the seconds and minutes move us further from that precise point in time and space. The clothing we wore maintains the emotion; it exists within a memory but cannot stop time from moving onward.
Time and space are part of who we are and what the clothes represent. We offer memories and nostalgia a place to exist in a shared market. Wherever it happened and whenever it occurred, that old dress, that preloved t-shirt, that vintage coat, or that treasured designer gown - are granted renewed opportunity to offer someone else a chance to fabricate their individual moment in time. The item is sold along a chain and woven into another memory and cherished. Forever.
Past Tense Sensibility
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Here, There, and Everywhere. Different time and place. Criss-crossing time zones and countries. Back and forth. Across borders and the space time continuum. We curate the second hands of time.
This is Chronophobia Collective.