Kane Turner

RMIT Bachelor of Fashion (Design)
kaneturner13@gmail.com
@kanewilliamturner

J.G Ballard's novel Crash (1973) examines the fetishisation of cars by using the car crash to question individualism, mass manufacturing, sexuality and the acceleration of capitalism. 'i tore hell for leather' expands from Ballard's ideas to identify the threshold of dominance embedded within mass manufactured garments. Through the atomisation of outerwear archetypes, the assertive qualities present within historically masculine garments are vivisected and reproduced in car upholstery textiles. Opening mechanisms produced in the lining begin to envelop remnants of dominance left within the new outwear garments. The vulnerability of the lining spills out over the legs forming undergarments as an external proposition.

Pressing down on the brake pedal,
The gas tank springs a leak,
Time grinds to a halt.

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RMIT Bachelor of Fashion (Design)

J.G Ballard's novel Crash (1973) examines the fetishisation of cars by using the car crash to question individualism, mass manufacturing, sexuality and the acceleration of capitalism. 'i tore hell for leather' expands from Ballard's ideas to identify the threshold of dominance embedded within mass manufactured garments. Through the atomisation of outerwear archetypes, the assertive qualities present within historically masculine garments are vivisected and reproduced in car upholstery textiles. Opening mechanisms produced in the lining begin to envelop remnants of dominance left within the new outwear garments. The vulnerability of the lining spills out over the legs forming undergarments as an external proposition.

Pressing down on the brake pedal,
The gas tank springs a leak,
Time grinds to a halt.

i tore hell for leather | Garments: Kane Turner | Photography: Miles Bedford | Hair and Make-Up: Penelope Burke | Model: Finn Vojlay

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