ERRIN SHIN

Collection
Video: OFFICIAL COLLECTION VIDEO
Image: LINEUP

JOUISSANCE: The Permanent Alternation of Woman and Monster

“Jouissance is the ultimate orgasm of the psyche…
where we confront the abyss of the self,
where desire and repulsion intertwine,
a moment of transcendence and dissolution.”


-Julia Kristeva
In the collection “JOUISSANCE: The Permanent Alternation of Woman and Monster,” ERRIN SHIN delves into the abject’s edge, where jouissance arises. Kristeva’s conception of jouissance involves a complex interplay between pleasure and pain... between desire and disgust. It encompasses both the ecstatic experience of merging with the other and the unsettling encounter with what is considered socially, culturally, or psychologically repulsive.


Unveiling archetypes of the monstrous feminine (Barbara Creed) from horror cinema, "JOUISSANCE" is discovered through a regurgitated transformation of these archetypes. A place where "woman" is envisioned as an enlightened creature, wherein the “I” does not disappear, but finds in the repulsion a sublime alienation, a fallen existence... where skin serves not only as a physical boundary, but a psychic boundary.


Through a cathartic interrogation of the “abject,” we unravel:
What is beauty when it is ruthlessly stripped to its raw core?
Image: RUBBER LACE HOOD DRESS
*mirrored patterning (reversible wear)
*two zippers along sleeves/side seams
Video: MARI BREATHING IN RUBBER LACE HOOD DRESS
Image: RUBBER LACE EXPERIMENTATION
Image: PATTERNING FOR VERSATILE WEAR
Image: JOI IN "WET SPECIMEN" LATEX DRESS
Image: "WET SPECIMEN" LATEX DRESS
worn with the double center zipper in center front
Image: "WET SPECIMEN" LATEX DRESS
worn with the double center zipper in center back
Image: WET SPECIMEN LATEX DRESS
Image: CHANDNI IN THE SIREN DRESS
Image: "CASTRATRICE" TUBES DRESS
Image: "WITCH" FUR HOODED COAT: 100% GOAT FUR WITH DOUBLE KNIT LINING AND DOUBLE ZIPPER
Image: LOOKBOOK GRID
Image: THANK YOU

Bio

ERRIN SHIN

ERRIN SIN

AIR IN SIN

THE AIR IN SIN

is a multidisciplinary fashion artist and designer based in New York City. Shin's design world echoes a Kafkaesque regurgitation of mundanity into her vision of a corporeal surreality. She probes the question, “What is PAST-HUMAN?" through automatism inspired by the Dada movement such as draping on her own body and experimental, distorted pattern-making. Shin designs both wearable sculptures and versatile clothing with a practice in the craftsmanship of making clothing with a flair for experimenting with unconventional materials including rubber, steel, and developing new materialities.

Seoul-born and Colorado-raised, Shin grapples with themes of utopia/dystopia and fragmentations of the “self” through the lens of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Having grown up the daughter of a physical therapist as well as training in classical ballet, figure skating, and contemporary dance, Shin has a deep-seated connection with and fascination for the human body.

With training from Parsons School of Design and Central Saint Martins, Shin views fashion as a vessel to EXTERNALIZE PRECIOUSNESS. Her work has been featured in publications including Metal Magazine, Office Magazine, Galore Magazine, and more. She was featured as the "Designer on the Cusp" in Photobook Magazine.

Influenced by nightly nightmares, philosophy, primordial history, film, critical theory, Dada, and psychoanalysis, Shin translates the intangible into the graspable through “THE AIR IN SIN.”