Post-Human, Pre-Empathy: Dressing for a Future That Might Feel

What if fashion centered those we usually ignore? This project designs for non-humans, half-machines, and silent caregivers. Not to correct them—but to accompany them.

This is not fashion for humans.

This is fashion for a future where humans are no longer the center.

Drawing from Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory and the overlooked emotional lives of companion animals, this project challenges the dominant logic of anthropocentrism—especially in systems like healthcare, where animals are routinely used, tested, and discarded in service of human survival.

We create garments not for dominance or display, but for coexistence.

These outfits are designed as speculative prosthetics—for beings that are part-animal, part-machine, part-caregiver, and part-captive. They are clumsy, soft, asymmetrical. They ask: What does it mean to wear something built on a non-human ethics?

In a world where emotional support animals are seen as tools, and guide dogs are subjected to shock collars and isolation chambers in pursuit of perfection, this work asks a hard question: What if the animal’s feelings came first?

Our silhouettes tilt, fall, hesitate.

Because maybe that’s what empathy looks like when it’s trying to learn to walk.

This is not the end of the human.

But it might be the beginning of something fairer.

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