By tapping into the spiritual source of creativity and the soul’s attraction to beauty, our relationship with what we wear becomes transformed by our deepest held values and connects us to this planet. bell hooks describes the opposite of love as greed, not hate, clarifying that it’s over consumption and materialism blocking us from fully expressing and receiving love. Considering community building, production, design, culture, and trends, we will approach fashion as beyond what we wear; it’s an opportunity to reflect our inner reality through our material body.

Resources:

Books/Literary Texts/Articles

• All About Love by Bell Hooks

• Art on My Mind by Bell Hooks

• The Creative Process by James Baldwin

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• The Hidden Words by by Baha’u’llah

• Paris Talks : a series of talks given by Abdu’l-Baha

• One ReportJusticeLoftinessFreedomQuestionsWillPerfectionBeauty (On Blackness)

• Facing the Fact of Death by Anisa Tavangar