Heidegger argues that our fundamental experience of the world is one of familiarity. We do not normally experience ourselves as subjects standing over against an object, but rather as at home in a world we already understand. We act in a world in which we are immersed. We are not just absorbed in the world but our sense of identity, of who we are, cannot be disentangled from the world around us. We are what matters to us in our living; we are implicated in the world.

Heidegger’s Being and Time

He brought back a knife. Unsheathed, it smiled at me, curving up in a grin. He took the hat from my mouth. ‘Tell me you love me,’ he said. Gently, I did. The end came anyway.

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

‘The fashion world has become so hungry that people are scouring - they come from all over the world to London, taking aspects of different groups and using it, consuming it and moving on to the next thing. But the fashion world will continue to miss the essence and will continue to exploit and will continue to rape and will continue to move on in a very superficial and trivial way’

 Joe Casely-Hayford on the fashion industry in Street Style: from Sidewalk to Catwalk - Ted Polhemus