GRADUATION COLLECTION
LINA DERYA SCHRIEVER
2120
I AM A SINNER
CONCEPT THE COLLECTION „2120 - I AM A SINNER“ TAKES PLACE IN AN IMAGINARY DYSTOPIA, WHICH WAS CREATED BY ANALYZING PRESENT EVENTS IN POLITICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THE THOUGH EXPERIMENT TAKES PLACE IN THE YEAR 2120. IMAGINE... 100 YEARS FROM NOW - THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS NO CRISIS ANYMORE, BUT DAILY LIFE; FLOODING DESTROYED ALL COAST - NEAR COUNTRIES AND BECUSE OF THE GREAT DROUGHT, MANY COUNTRIES AREN‘T HABITABLE ANYMORE. THE POPULATION IS FLEEING TOWARDS COUNTRIES, WHICH ARE LEFT WHILE FIGHTING OVER EVERY SQUARE INCH. PURE SURVIVAL IS NOW THE FOCUS. THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY HAS A PLAN ON HOW TO KEEP THE POPULATION CALM AND CONTENT, IN ORDER TO DISTRACT THEM FROM PAST MISTAKES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE. THIS PLAN IS MADE TO PREVENT OVERPOPULATION AND TO BUILD A HARMONIC SOCIETY. THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT TODAY, THE YEAR 2120, SWITCHED TO ANCIENT METHODS, BECAUSE THE FORMER WAY OF RULING HAS BROUGHT US TO WHERE WE ARE NOW. ON A BROKEN EARTH, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WAITING FOR THE END OF HUMAN LIFE, IN ORDER TO BLOOM AGAIN. THE APPROACH: PEOPLE WON‘T BE CHARGED BASED ON FORMER CRIMES, BUT BASED ON THE DEADLY SINS: GREED, SLOTH, PRIDE, GLUTTONY, WRATH, LUST AND ENVY. EVERYONE, WHO COMITTS A „SIN - RELATED“ CRIME LOSES AN ESSENTIAL SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT. THE PEOPLE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE SEVEN CAPITAL VIRTUES, WHICH HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN THE 4TH CENTURY: HUMILITY, KINDNESS, TEMPERANCE, CHASITY, PATIENCE, CHARITY AND DILIGENCE. THIS SHOULD CREATE A SOCIETY, WHICH FOCUSES SOLELY ON SUPPOSEDLY GOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND WHICH SHARES A PURE SOCIAL THOUGHT. THE THING, THAT IS PUSEHD INTO THE BACKGROUND IS INDIVIDUALITY. THUS WILL TURN INTO FACELESS CREATURES, WHICH CAN BE CONTROLLED MORE EASILY. IN THIS UNIVERSUM DOES THE COLLCETION TAKE PLACE. IT SHOULD FUNCTION LIKE A UNIFORM FOR THOSE, WHO DON‘T WANT TO DEFER TO THIS ABSTRACT SYSTEM, BECAUSE.. INDIVIDUALITY IS A CHARACTERISTIC, WHICH EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON EARTH SHWOS- WHICH MAKES A HUMAN, HUMAN AND A LIFE WORTH LIVING. AND NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE THAT FROM ANYBODY. THAT‘S WHY THE „OUTLIERS OF SOCIETY“ JOIN FORCES AND CREATE A UNIFRM, WHICH IS DIRECTED PROVOCATIVE AND PUBLICLY AGAINST THE REGIME. EVERY LOOK PORTRAIS A DEADLY SIN.
LOOK I : SUPERBIA
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Pride is defined by as "reasonable self-esteem" or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself".
However, "pride" sometimes is used interchangeably with "conceit" or "arrogance" (among other words) with negative connotations.
Oxford defines it as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance."
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LOOK II : IRA
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Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.
A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion which triggers part of the fight or flight response.
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LOOK III : ACEDIA
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Mentally, acedia has a number of distinctive components of which the most important is affectlessness, a lack of any feeling about self or others, a mind-state that gives rise to boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive, inert, or sluggish mentation. Physically, acedia is fundamentally a cessation of motion and an indifference to work.
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LOOK IV : AVARITIA
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Greed (or avarice) is an uncontrolled longing for increase in the acquisition or use of material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as status, or power. Greed has been identified as undesirable throughout known human history because it creates behavior-conflict between personal and social goals.
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LOOK V : LUXURIA
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Lust is a psychological force producing intense desire for something, or circumstance while already having a significant amount of the desired object. Lust can take any form such as the lust for sexuality, money, or power.
It can take such mundane forms as the lust for food as distinct from the need for food or lust for redolence. It is similar to but distinguished from passion,
in that passion propels individuals to achieve benevolent goals whilst lust does not.
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LOOK VI : GULA
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Gluttony (Latin: gula, derived from the Latin gluttire meaning "to gulp down or swallow") means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, alcoholand other recreational drugs, or wealth items, particularly as status symbols.
In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be withheld from the needy.
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LOOK VII : INVIDIA
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Envy is characterized by an insatiable desire like greed and lust. It can be described as a sad or resentful covetousness towards the traits or possessions of someone else. It comes from vainglory and severs a man from his neighbor.
Malicious envy is similar to jealousy in that they both feel discontent towards someone's traits, status, abilities, or rewards. A difference is that the envious also desire the entity and covet it.
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