The Mystic Collection of Purple Impression
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Purple Impressions (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/02/10
The Mystic Collection for Purple Impression is based on three creative types from different backgrounds – a local designer, a Persian calligrapher, and women artisans (hand-embroiders) in Pakistan – coming together to benefit artisans and unify people. We’re about diverse groups coming together in an inclusive environment. A place for everyone to meditate on a message of peace.
Purple Impression’s main philosophy is inclusion. The Mystic Collection follows this philosophical tradition, especially in this recent rises in divisive words and deeds. Art and fashion can bridge the divisions and bring people together through love, peace, and unity, which is a thing of beauty as art and fashion can be as well. Globally, there remain urgent crises from the political sphere, such as extreme nationalism, to socio-cultural life, such as the open and influential xenophobia based on ethnicity and religion.
Fast fashion is another issue. It influences the rights of women and children, e.g. with the labor rights violations and inequality in pay, the environment, e.g. degradation to the fragile balance of the ecosystem, the oceans, and the atmosphere ‘purity’ relative to the needs of human beings, and unsustainable consumption, e.g. the advertising, marketing, and public relations industry connected to business promoting the lifestyles of the worst consumers and polluters. The Mystic Collection aims to speak to these concerns in a slow fashion agenda.
Moroccan architecture inspired the structural elements of the embroidery seen in the design for the Mystic Collection. The influences remain in the geometry and embellishments for the calligraphic inscriptions intended to create the sense of harmony. Messages can be seen on the pieces in the collection Hubb or “Love,” Wahdah or “Unity,” and Sallam or “Peace.” The links to the original philosophy of inclusion with messages of love and unity for the attainment of peace through the Mystic Collection.
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