Arte de Segunda: Prendas que tejen historias

Abstract

Second-hand clothing has had multiple aspects and varied uses throughout the history of mankind, and in recent years it has had an exponential growth on a large scale that from a sustainable perspective seeks to be the most viable alternative to lessen the consequences of the most polluting industry in the market: the textile economy. This degree project investigated the implications of second-hand clothing in terms of its environmental approach and its relationship with the problem of pollution generated by excessive capitalist consumption of clothing, also with respect to the social and cultural relationship found in second-hand clothing as a means that expresses an intention of humanitarian aid to vulnerable communities or artistic recreation of everything that the world considers garbage or useless, giving multidiversity of meanings to the object, always prioritizing the reuse of raw materials. Consequently, the sociological perspective was also deepened around this concept and how second-hand clothing is established as the channel of generational and social stories about the clothes that pass from hand to hand, of the construction of collective social identity in the dressing of bodies and of the narrative where second-hand clothing ends up being also a political discourse against a hegemonic system of consumption.