Unisex Uniform, Constraint or Release → Aon Sluagh
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How can speculative and reimagined realities, cultures and rituals be used as a tool to inform design and discourse
in current society and culture?
Scottish Gaelic for One People, ‘Aon Sluagh’ is the name of the fictional island and culture that was created and explored in order to answer the question; What could a culture that operates without gender constructs look like?
These garments act as an intermediary for this culture, like artifacts in a museum becoming the physical embodiment of a culture’s way of life. Similar to how wedding attire and ritual in our own culture says a lot about our society, this fictitious wedding attire displays the themes that presented themselves throughout this exploration. Themes of transformation, reclamation, community, mystery, uniformity and imperfection. Forming A balance of contrasting and complementary elements.
Tonally Aon Sluagh is ‘a ceilidh on the edge of a cliff’ - a joyous dance balancing on the edge.
The name ‘one people’ suggests a group of people acting as one, two people joining to become one, and equality. A balance of individual elements forming a culture built on community and craft, celebrating coming together. Scottish cultural history was a strong inspiration in creating this: Scottish textiles, Highland dress, the carved stones and tattoos of ancient cultures, and Scotland’s most remote island, St. Kilda.