CSM Potraits by Balint Alovits

school’s vibrancy and diversity

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“The series raises questions about gender issues in the 21st century, adequacy and rebellion, integration, difference, and simulacra.”

creative, fashionable, and pretentious

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Youth - the core of Research of Fashion and style

connect the similarities, common visual signifiers

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“Art school kids” characterized by a strong sense of individuality, find a place of belonging when they first join the institution of an art school. Being around other people with whom they can feel different, together.

“enjoying a consciousness of ‘otherness’ or difference,” an integral element of a subculture according to sociologist Sarah Thorton.

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in order for a subculture to exist it needs the opposite , the prevailing, the mass produced culture.

“Are art-school students a modern subculture that aims to oppose the system from within, or are they just young people with similar aesthetic expressions, under the same roof?”

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it’s about the people

“very csm” - colourful hair and makeup layers of vintage and designer pieces put together in an unorthodox manner.

challenging the social conventions of what beauty and gender actually mean.

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sharing the same struggles

https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/stories/thats-so-csm

https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/49095/1/central-saint-martins-portraits-photography-series-students-fashion-art-design

https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/49095/1/central-saint-martins-portraits-photography-series-students-fashion-art-design

https://www.thelovemagazine.co.uk/gallery/portraits-of-central-saint-martins/1

https://1granary.com/opinion/so-csmare-art-school-kids-a-subculture/#&gid=1&pid=27

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