> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://arts-of-the-working-class.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Show notes - URL: https://arts-of-the-working-class.ghost.io/text/show-notes/ - Published: 2022-03-08T00:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-30T21:51:36.000Z - Description: Deconstructed diary entries of a frenzied writer attending fashion shows in London, Milan and Paris. - Author: Dal Chodha - Tags: #silverstripe, #issue-20 These texts – originally published in SHOW NOTES (2020) – are the deconstructed diary entries of a frenzied writer attending fashion shows in London, Milan and Paris. Revised and rebooted from reports written over a period of three years, these reflections on clothes, stage sets and the language of PR insist on the authority of the word in an age possessed by the image. Recontextualised here, they are a reminder of the murky rhapsody of fashion – an industry that revels in the power of its iconography whilst distracting us from its truths. \*\*\* what a boon for red, read blood a sense of dread, perhaps even self-loathing knowing shoulders engineered to twist around the torso a graphic wave jumper skew, a white plastic mac well worn the eradication of work/life balance forever running to the studio, walking to the gym hints of light grey, orange & blue on the canvas signature plastic tag in baby blue yet more merch \*\*\* what to wear in the wilderness the invitation arrives in a long thick box sandwiched between two thick pieces of white foam: a mini-Italian futurist bust the avant-garde desire to elevate the transgressive dirt as a counterpoint to glitter sometimes unsettling, the last in extreme elegance deep in the concrete crypt turned inside out models glide across the upper walkway of towering scaffolding the full height & width the epic symmetry in the harsh summer sunlight, models elevated & ethereal a sort of uniform, a symbol of evolution silk duchesse, cut large fitted high to the torso, crushing to the floor the same look lacquered 12 ounce denim in industrial black, blue & green the look blunt, rich in texture light sheer wool gazar washed & sun dried plastic tarp lurex tape woven on a metal warp a stiff plastic textile, future proof an agonisingly hot day in Paris \*\*\* what a boon for red, read blood a sense of dread, perhaps even self-loathing knowing shoulders engineered to twist around the torso a graphic wave jumper skew, a white plastic mac well worn the eradication of work/life balance forever running to the studio, walking to the gym hints of light grey, orange & blue on the canvas signature plastic tag in baby blue yet more merch \*\*\* a go-to uniform, an acting out against the norm an idiosyncratic riff on utility wear crossing over, walking fast & then slow a shower of tiny leaves bleached out the US military’s night camo an aesthetic comeback for summer poems by refugees on the walls of the Palazzo Pitti bold typographic art a sculptor who works with language to recode the familiar how the wearer attaches stories to clothes open to interpretation you choose! \*\*\* light deconstructed breezy beach town soft terrycloth fat corduroy lush velour easy pyjama style sun-bleached blues pinks wreathes of corals a short sleeved shirt appliquéd with seahorses wood // --- ### IMAGE CREDITS . Anthea Hamilton H is for Hairy Leg 2018 © Anthea Hamilton. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and kaufmann repetto *Dal Chodha is a London-based writer and editor-in-chief of Archivist Addendum – a publishing project that explores the gap between fashion editorial and academe. A lecturer at Central Saint Martins, he is a contributing editor at Wallpaper\* magazine. SHOW NOTES (2020) is available to buy at tenderbooks.co.uk.*