This work examines and questions body extensions and body modelling, existing expectations about ideals of beauty, and normed bodies. Products such as shapewear or corsages that often serve to customize the body to standardised ideals are deconstructed and reinterpreted. Through individually knitted accessories, current, western trends and body images are reflected upon, at the same time as playfully breaking open how they are perceived. The accessories allow scope for the individual shaping of body forms. The material used was collected from off-cuts, hand-me-downs and a stock of remainders.
The work is based on feminist principles, and addresses both gender and visual appearances in current pop-culture. In the process, the project factors in SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality / FINTA*).
