The Too Much

Fashion, like art, is forever caught in the tension between speed and survival. The disposable thrives in the churn of fast fashion, collapsing under its own velocity, garments designed to vanish as quickly as they appear, leaving behind only the faint trace of their waste. Against this ephemerality rises the provocative, a deliberate affront to comfort and consensus, works that unsettle and demand response, where provocation itself becomes a form of design, a gesture that insists on being seen. Yet beyond both lies the enduring gesture, not the endurance of fabric alone but of movements, ideas, and rhythms that survive origin, carrying forward into new contexts with a persistence that resists erasure. And then, standing apart, comes the excess: a critique sharp and immediate, where ornament, spectacle, and branding drown clarity, where rhythm falters beneath the weight of overdesign. Together, these arcs form a continuum, disposable, provocative, enduring, while the excess strikes hard, singular, unmissable, reminding us that fashion’s language is not only about what is worn, but about what endures, what provokes, and what collapses under its own ornament.