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DE.FASH.STRUCTION @ Design Space on October 7th 2015 DE.FASH.STRUCTION: Telling stories through fashion curated by Khulood Thani Wednesday 7 October, 2015 7:00 p.m. 1971 – Design Space The Flag Island Sharjah, United Arab Emirates The designers in De.Fash.Struction explore ways of documenting the United Arab Emirates' rich cultural heritage and modern references through the medium of contemporary fashion. They employ the techniques of deconstruction in their newly commissioned projects for this exhibition. The exhibited designs take these cultural and local narratives as source material using the deconstruction technique. Deconstruction in fashion implies an undoing of the structure of a garment, a refusal to 'finish' it. It suggests working with subtractions or displacements and are thinking of the function and meaning of the garment itself,...