'\"those clothes make you look gay\" ((LOOKBOOK))'

$'\"those clothes make you look gay\" ((LOOKBOOK))'$
01:05 Feb 3, 2022 0 0
'this is my first project for my integrative studio class at parsons the new school for design. I will attach the artist statement below but basically we did a 6 word memoir about a purposeful imperfection or something that our society may deem is \"wrong\" with us. I had a lot of fun making this video because, essentially, it is a video that I would normally make with the exception of certain pieces of clothing (the last look snatched but i would still never wear that without the context of an art project) but i hope you ENJOY!!!!!!  +  ARTIST STATEMENT:   In February of 2015, I uploaded my first video to YouTube: a collection of shaky footage from around my house and overlaid with a horrible sepia filter. Although it is private now, it got about 300 views. Then, I started uploading videos geared towards fashion and realized how much better people responded to them. A thousand views, five thousand, forty five thousand, a hundred and sixty thousand. With these videos came subscribers, internet friends, products from companies, but also countless people who felt the need to leave hateful comments. I am fortunate because there was never one single time where I read a comment and actually felt hurt. At this point, the comments are comical and point to a deeper irony about the person’s ideas on gender, sexuality, and fashion.  Starting this project, the easiest way to research was simply going through my videos (usually the most viewed ones) and reading these comments and finding what in particular people commented the most about. It is not surprising then that the most hate comments are found in my two most popular videos where I compared two types of Vans shoes popular among everyone but especially straight men. For some people it was the simple, “gay,” or, “you dress like a lesbian.” But, then I started noticing certain patterns like, “your jeans are way too tight,” or, “your shorts are way too high.” Through this, I started to formulate different outfits in my head about how I could take these presumed gay types of clothing and transition them throughout a series of outfits that would make me look “more straight” or “more gay.”  The entire process of making this video was surreal in the sense that this is actually a way I would record a video for my channel. I set up my green screen, I put together a collection of outfits, and record videos of me in them to serve as inspiration for other people. The only difference was that I was consciously making up outfits that I deemed appropriate to fit the next level of “gayness” or “femininity” throughout a series of four outfits. I enjoyed this experience because it has been something I have been doing for almost four years but this was just a new way of experiencing video production and making content that was representative of who I am. It enabled me to look outside of myself into the clothes I wear, how I perceive outfits to look “gay” or not, and experience the humor in social expectations in our culture. I can put on clothes to look straight or I can put on clothes to look gay but, in the end, everyone will have an opinion. I am going to wear what I feel comfortable in and I will find people who appreciate that.  +  this is my first project for my integrative studio class at parsons the new school for design. I will attach the artist statement below but basically we did a 6 word memoir about a purposeful imperfection or something that our society may deem is \"wrong\" with us. I had a lot of fun making this video because, essentially, it is a video that I would normally make with the exception of certain pieces of clothing (the last look snatched but i would still never wear that without the context of an art project) but i hope you ENJOY!!!!!!  +  me:
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