Living in a world of Consumption

Today's contemporary society lives in a culture full of consumtion where one must consume in order to survive. However, if you love fashion and consuming carbohydrates, you will love this article!

New York designer Chloe Wise exhibits her artistic interests in her new collection “ Pissing, Shmoozing and Looking away”, of sculptures that look good enough to eat! Through the duality of the word consumption - defined as both an indulgence of food and a surplus of spending - Wise has created a number of sculptures based on the notions of luxury and consumptuon by recreating some of the fashion industry's most notorious merchadise with a diverse range of breads.

Wise states that she “wanted to show the parallels between the idolatry for luxury items in fashion with the equivalent importance of the commodity in the art world”.  Reimagined in pancake, toast, bagels and pastries, Wise recontextualises the pricey products as art objects intstead of purchasable goods, where food and fashion are rid of their value and become soely symbolic of the frivolity of excess.

(Source: Artnet)

Lauren Musat
Current student in the Master of Marketing program at the University of Sydney Business School