Fashion Film: TORUS

‘A torus is an infinite shape in which all parts are connected…If we can see and imagine ourselves in this universal entity, we can be both separate and connected with everything else.’ Fredrik Tjærandsen

Fredrik Tjærandsen's wearable bubbles offer up meditations on human connection and loneliness in this love story of sorts, directed by Nick Knight and filmed by Knight, Britt Lloyd and Raquel Couceiro with choreography by Wayne McGregor. Dancers orbit in darkness as isolated entities, occasionally lit as they transition through a temporal universe, a mirror to the life that many are only passing through, barely connecting.

Drawing on the formation of identity via childhood memories in his designs, Tjærandsen encourages both viewer and wearer to understand the world through alternate perspectives, whilst offering a metaphor for how we might find alternate ways to connect with one another even in the most isolated of times.

Physical connection is impossible, yet craved nevertheless. What does emotional closeness look like, in a world without touch?