Making It Up.

If we consider a process of invention in creative disciplines other than fashion, experimental music for instance, we might see that ‘composing’ need not provide precise or prescribed instructions towards specific results, outcomes, or conventional aesthetic configurations.

Composing can establish procedures or systems that enable a diversity of unique objectives and outputs rather than any one particular goal. It is also often a procedure of acting without complete information. Improvisation, then, can allow musicians to arrive at unknown results through enthusiastic exploration, difference and heurism – a process in which people learn and discover for themselves, both independently and collectively.

Fashion can similarly investigate and apply forms of improvisation that may take a design process somewhere it might not go otherwise. Such methodology would not be intended to provide finished or complete garments, artefacts, or even ideas, but as a trigger for incomplete fashion experiences, opportunities, and compositions.