Future Tag

AI boyfriends, iPad babies, and Sabrina Carpenter Fortnite skins: everywhere you look, the boundaries between technology and the human body are fraying. As we plug in, log on, and upload, our physical selves feel increasingly secondary to the digital versions we present online. This fear of bodily displacement is now being expressed in SFX, a medium long used to dramatise anxieties through the contortions of the human form. But today, it reflects a near-future reality: the absorption of technology into the human body, and the creation of a cybernetic future. In the latest runways we are seeing the emergence of tech-based SFX make-up entangled with the human form. Throughout designer Rohan Mirza’s runways, we see gaming accolades and technology embedded into...