Graduation Year
2024
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art
Second Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Kasper Kovitz
Reader 2
Aly Ogasian
Reader 3
Marc Los Huertos
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
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© 2023 Isabel Kramer
Abstract
With this project, I use fashion design as a medium to visually speculate a range of futures that exist in relation to different temporal apocalypses and dystopian world endings under the current capitalist structure. Three questions guided my thinking and creation of this project: What will people be wearing in 100 years in Los Angeles if we continue down our current path of late capitalism-induced climate change? How will this look differently for people who exist alongside different axes of oppression and who are affected by environmental racisms that manifest in the built environment of Los Angeles? How do dystopian futures rooted in contemporary conditions expose dystopias of past and present? To lay the groundwork for my artistic intervention, I connect a myriad of environmental inequalities in Los Angeles together to draw attention to the slow violence enacted in the city and characterize it as a site of dystopia and impending apocalypses. I then analyze the power of dystopic narratives in literature, film, art, and fashion to set up the stakes for my artistic intervention.
Recommended Citation
Kramer, Isabel, "Costuming the Californian Apocalypse: Sartorial Speculations of Los Angeles's Future" (2024). Scripps Senior Theses. 2360.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2360
