Social Fashion has chosen conflict
resolution as the main specialization for its work and study. Given the great
changes of the world system in terms of war, and the personal experience of the
founder Nadia Shaulova, who has always dedicated her profession to social and
fashion activities, with a particular attention to conflict transformation and
peace building, the creative workshop will focus its work on an innovative
response to the global contribution of the fashion industry to conflict resolution.
Transforming profits of the fashion industry into objects of reflection for a
creative and innovative approach to the processing service and conflict
resolution and transformation, generating a positive impact on the construction
of Peace.
Conflict is one of the most common and
widespread human experiences, lived both internally and externally, which
arises in the spiritual dimension and involves the body. In order to explain
this connection, the ancient philosophical concept of habitus may be used, from
which derive ‘habits’ and ‘clothing’. Habitus anthropologically represents a
profound aspect of the personal identity, a spiritual memory of life, choices,
and accomplishments manifested in habits and personal style. Similarly, the
clothes we wear are a reflection of personality, ideas, and lifestyle.
They can be tended or tattered. Sometimes
they protect us, and sometimes they leave us more naked and vulnerable.
Fashion works on clothing, suggests change,
and demonstrates new possibilities with respect to usual styles, similarly to
changes in human relations and the ways of thinking and reacting.
The anthropological dimension challenges
fashion to conceive stimuli for moral depth that provoke in order to rethink
bad relational habits and the categories of ‘enemy’ and ‘friend’.
The fashion dimension challenges
anthropology to reevaluate not only the corporeality but beyond clothing,
considering the latter an expression of spirituality.
Social Fashion aims at harmonizing the
material and immaterial world by creating clothing that invites reflecting on
the amplitude of habitus and tries to trigger a positive change in relations
through clothing. Thus, clothing can become an instrument for transforming
conflict into peace and harmony, restituting to man a human, social, and
cultural improvement.
Re-dressing the culture of peace by
changing the habit (habits) with the habitus (clothes). Last but not least, the
conviction, that our habitus also depends on habitat change, in the sense of an
environmental and cultural fallout: the close link between places and bodies,
habits and dresses cannot avoid generating a virtuous reciprocity in the field
of fashion, perhaps far too much neglected.
Vision
We work for a world in which humans can be in
harmony with its own material and immaterial needs, consciously dressing their
and “others” cultural thoughts; where the awareness of its own conflicts, and
those of others, promote a system of peace among people.
Mission
Deconstructing social prejudice, distrust
and discrimination that amplifies personal, interpersonal, and environmental
conflicts through the introduction of values and knowledge in the process of
fashion product development which, when worn, can humanly and spiritually
improve one’s own knowledge, and that of others.
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