Danish-Chilean artist Marco Evaristti is undermining the anonymous death. He has created an haute couture collection that death row prisoners can be offered for their execution day. The collection will be revealed August 9, 2008 at a spectacular fashion show in Skuespilhuset, Copenhagen, during Copenhagen Fashion Week 08.

Fashion communicates. Fashion gives us the opportunity and the right to show who we are as individuals. Fashion can show who we are, where we are coming from and what we believe in.

The Last Fashion brings focus on the death penalty in the US. Death row prisoners have no longer the right to act as individuals. They are isolated. It is of no interest who they are, where they are coming from and what they believe in. They are already dead.

The collection, The Last Fashion, is a unique design that offers the forgotten, hidden person to make an individual choice, dying, not as "the inhuman other", but as a human like any other. Thus the collection will be sold as the last set of clothes to death row prisoners. In accordance with US prison budgets the clothes are sold at a prize of USD 39,95.

During the course of working with the collection, Evaristti has visited Gene Hathorn, an inmate on Texas Death Row. Processing through a slow and bureaucratic system drawings and poems by Hathorn has since then been sent to Evaristti. These things are incorporated in Evaristti´s work, thus opening and putting forward what is hidden, untold of and isolated.

The Last Fashion is Marco Evaristti´s contribution to individualising forgotten human beings thereby undermining the anonymous death.

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