Ankia Smulovitz
Boise, Idaho
White Collar 5
altered men's white shirt collars, size 16 1/2
White
Oxford shirts have a long tradition of being the staple of the socially
acceptable, upper-class male uniform. The White Collar series manipulates this socially charged form of
adornment/clothing, questioning status, gender, and sexuality. Exploring the gray area between
textiles and jewelry, they investigate what is acceptable versus what is taboo.
Why do similarly detached white collars, an essential component of the playboy
bunny costume, evoke both female power and misogynistic male dominance?
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