VFW 2020 S/S

CRASHED — by Nicole Mo

CRASHED is a collection that designed to reflect people’s strugglers between the digital world and reality in today’s life. This collection is inspired by seemed one of the necessities in our daily life – the social media. The social media was originally created to help people communicate from all different corners in the world. However, while we live in a world that non-filtered information is easily accessed, we start to experience some social problems such as not feeling fulfilled, experiencing the confusion between the real world and digital world, and creating multiple personalities online. The question is, does the social media bring us closer or further? The answers may vary. Look around the world we live in, we start to post pictures on Facebook and broadcast our daily life to create an image for others to approve; We are more willing to talk to strangers instead of our friends and loved ones because sending messages makes the commutation easier; We believe every Photoshopped pictures on Instagram and follow their lifestyles. We are overwhelmed, confused, unfulfilled and lost. Like the computer, it crashes when it loads too many programs at the same time and gets virus attack, we crash when we get overfed of the digital information. Unfortunately, we cannot easily restart after crash like computers do.