Every body is a political body. It does not need to speak or move to be one. Every action, or lack thereof, communicates more than any speech, more than any discussion: the body is present, and its absence is also a form of expression and manifesto.

We cannot deny that, like performance art, fashion is a space for questioning standards and customs and can be a political space. Previously linked to a strong conception of what the human body is and a rigid gender-oriented creative process, fashion now questions this place, destroying conceptions around it and creating a collective space where the body is free matter.

The absent body thus emerges from the exact definition of the body and is sustained by the alternation of its absence and ‘presence’. According to the dictionary, in a less scientific approach, ‘the body is everything that occupies space, whether organic or inorganic’. The body occupies space and its virtuality (absence) also - what is not there causes a feeling of emptiness that occupies. In this concept of window displays, the body is represented figuratively and symbolically through photography and the residue of its silhouette, which in itself invokes the absence of matter. It is something that unconsciously suggests its presence and the trace of an action.