Living in the City through Female Fashion

Abstract

This thesis analyzes an initial urban visit throughout the iconic French city of Paris, and uses the methodology of graphical collage to further unravel the individually derived “living” experience accumulated within the particular built environment. Using case studies created by photographers, graphic designers, and architects who vividly captured and documented their individualistic experiences within cities through photography, graphical design, and photocompositions, all inspired the use of the multi-informational transect to study the similar “living” notion hidden in the hometown city of Seattle. The character of the urban environment is translated through its unique and distinctive elements into similar references found within Jean Paul Gaultier’s female fashions. The idea of fashion, along with other disciplines, is used as a motif to capture and lead a discussion into the present subjectivity, integration, multi-modal connection, and imagination all present within architecture.