Dress Code

After the protective function, even modest, the garment is representative of identity, it can arouse desire by sublimating the human body through the adornment, but it can also reveal codes and standards. The codes clothing allows integration into society or on the contrary a rejection, an emancipation and also a claim. Symbol of the globalization, fashion, place of subjectivation and desubjectivation, of intervention and alienation, contributes to social and physical emancipation. But clothing always takes on the role of being the signifier of gender, age, social status, religion, sexual orientation, opinions politics, wealth, "subcultures". Dress Code looks at this relationship between identity and clothing, notably through the Drag Queens of New York, the twins in Nigeria, the voodoo rituals in Benin and Togo, the Zapotec women in Mexico. Photographers: Liza Ambrossio, Michela Benaglia, Delphine Blast, Robin Block de Friberg, Manon Boyer, Elina Brotherus, Daniel Castro Garcia, Bruno Cattani, Antonio D'Ambrosio, Sanne De Wilde, Alexandre Dupeyron, Amin El Dib, Benoît Feron, Collective fiVe, Jeanne Frank, Ching-Yuan Hsu, Sara Imloul, Phumzile Khanyile, Bénédicte Kurzen, Lawrence Lemaoana, Lila Neutral, Frédéric Noy, Mathieu Richer Mamousse, Torsten Schumann, Blurry Trend.