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Reflecting on these initial photographs I had been cultivating the<br />

idea that people were montaged identities through the <strong>clothes</strong><br />

they chose to wear. There seemed to be a need <strong>for</strong> the wearer of<br />

<strong>clothes</strong> to project the notion that their clothed appearance had a<br />

seamless integrity, a style as it were, and in achieving this state of<br />

appearance it reflected who they were as people.<br />

However, our <strong>clothes</strong> are a bricolage of collected items of apparel<br />

and ideas about appearance imbued with cultural messages of<br />

who we portray we feel we are to others. This though can so<br />

often become miss-matched. As such the conceit is unveiled, the<br />

game is up. We are revealed <strong>for</strong> who we are, (if we can ever<br />

actually know who we are); not purposeful, independently minded<br />

strong individual of enviable status, but people whose<br />

vulnerabilities and insecurities make us fragile, insecure and<br />

imperfect; less than we would wish to be.

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