The End of Fancy Shopping

My project is a visual story of “The End of Fancy Shopping,” as I call it. Due to NYC Covid lock-down most stores closed, or went out of business. I focused on the fashion industry meltdown during the quarantine. Most of the boutiques and high fashion stores removed their products and left stores empty with the lights on, thus creating this new appearance of the clean geometry of empty shelves and total abandonment at the same time. Nobody knew what’s next... And next was a public unrest; protest marches and looting due to the social tensions after police savagely killed George Floyd in Minneapolis. Neighborhoods, like SoHo, suddenly transformed in to what they were decades ago: inhabited by local artists, no fancy fashion stores and revival of the true street art.