In a world of one-time-wear, Vestido proves that re-wearing isn’t repetition—it’s keeping fashion’s stories alive
Fashion moves fast. One day, a piece of clothing is coveted; the next, it’s left to relish in the dust of the back closet, replaced by something shinier, newer, and more ‘of the moment.’ But the real power of fashion, as championed by today’s allies of cyclical wear, isn’t in what’s next, but in what lasts—and Worn Stories argues exactly that. Running for eight days, it features Vestido, a sustainable occasion-wear rental studio, and uses it to unearth the lives that our clothes have lived.
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It’s easy to think we own our clothes, but in reality, they have the ability to move through time, through bodies, through narratives that outlive a single person’s wardrobe. Worn Stories invited seven artists—Colin Dancel, Regine David, Shaira Luna, Andrea Genota, Camille Robiou du Pont, Judd Figuerres, and Mano Gonzales—to translate this idea into visual form. Through photography, installations, and video art, they reveal fashion’s quiet power to hold onto experience, allowing us to return to it, trace its seams, and listen to the stories it carries.
The Ghosts in Our Closet
It looks like this: enlarged pictures hanging midair, some perfectly placed, others rolling onto the floor like a red carpet. A small wall of screens flashed with looping images—memories edited, rewound, and replayed again and again for its guests. It captures fashion as a vessel and a keeper of memory—made visually interesting for crowds to get it.
Colin Dancel captures the way fabric holds emotion, balancing light and shadow to reveal what we feel but rarely say. Regine David layers fashion with identity and queerness, reclaiming the female gaze in a way that makes even menswear feel intimate. Shaira Luna leans into nostalgia, showing how garments become relics of time, while Andrea Genota infuses softness and strength into her imagery, proving that femininity—like fabric—can be both delicate and unbreakable.
Camille Robiou du Pont taps into something a little mystical, rediscovering the divine femininity that lingers in cloth. Mano Gonzales goes tactile, letting people see beyond the looks of fashion—but how it feels, how it moves, how it lives. Judd Figuerres’ Vestido Time Capsule archives the memories Vestido’s garments hold through 3D-scanned portraits, personal artifacts, and immersive soundscapes.
In a way, it captures the ghosts in our closets—not to haunt the next wearer, but to remind them that these garments live on, carrying stories far deeper than they may ever realize.
Vestido and the Beauty of ‘Re-wearing’
Women gravitate towards rental studio Vestido for its curated selection of pieces and designers, but by borrowing such, they call out something deeper: ours and fashion’s obsession with disposability and one-time-wear. It asks: why should a dress only be worn once? Why do we love what’s “new” when what makes something truly valuable is the meaning we attach to it?
It flips fast fashion on its face, allowing women to borrow, wear, and return beautiful clothes, and ensure beauty doesn’t come at the cost of the waste. We like to think it started an even bigger movement. Like-minded businesses have since emerged, championing the re-wearing of clothes at various price points and designers, too. Instead of seeing this as a “competition” of some sort, which some may understandably do, it’s a win for us women and the planet. We carry the beauty and values of sustainability in each piece, and there frankly no better creatives to capture this beauty perfectly than the seven.
Featured Image and Photos: ANDREA GENOTA, COLIN DANCEL, CAMILLE ROBIOU DU PONT, SHAIRA LUNA
