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Second hand clothes

The magazine Madame Figaro links the photographic presence of these models' bodies, which are difficult to remember, with one of the street ramifications that the economic collapse of those years of misery (the years of the dictatorship in Chile) transferred in an unusual way to the facades and the composure of the popular classes. The magazine tells its readers that "P. Errázuriz calls his series American Clothes: an expression for second-hand clothes, introduced during the economic crisis of the 1980s under the Pinochet dictatorship. The year 1982 in Chile brought the neoliberal start of the cruel and successful Chicagos Boys Plan to one of the biggest economic and financial bankruptcies in the country's history. The "American clothes" were the surplus clothes that the United States shipped in containers to the Third World, to Chile, allowing the recycling of clothing identities impoverished in Chile by the fatal consequences (the debt, the loan and the mortgage) of the neoliberal boom. The "otherness" of the title "American clothing" of this last series by P.E. preserves a heteroclite memory of clothing that cites the memory -locally disarticulated and rearticulated- of a complete upheaval of codes that goes far beyond fashion.

Richard, Nelly (2018). El descalce de la otredad. Santiago de Chile: Moda y fealdad. 2.º Encuentro de prácticas críticas, Moda desobediente.