# Project Description

Clothed by Images

Tongtong Zhou

Summary

Final work

A fashion photographer, graduated from LCF MA Fashion Photography.

A fashion photographer, graduated from LCF MA Fashion Photography.

College London College of Fashion

Course MA Fashion Photography

Graduation year 2025

This series inverts the traditional body-fashion relationship by having models wear printed photographs of clothing instead of actual garments. The physical body becomes a canvas for fashion imagery while material fabric is eliminated entirely. This approach directly examines whether fashion images alone can construct identity without the physical body—questioning if we now define ourselves more through visual representation than physical materiality.

Final work

untitled#2, From series "Clothed by Images"

The model’s body is present here, but the clothing is just an image, creating an interesting tension and showing how identity can be constructed and perceived through visual culture alone.

untitled#3, From series "Clothed by Images"

This shift helps me question what really makes fashion real. Is it the actual material, or the visual idea and symbol behind it?

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