ESSENTIAL
1. Distracting. 2. Reduced to a, or the minimum; pared down, spare, no more than itself. 3. A virtue made of a necessity, or vice versa. 4. Of exaggerated importance; privileged to avoid confusion, fix attention, or encourage sacrifice. 5. That which quickens or concentrates a space; the forcing of focus. 6. Exclusive; letting the trivial, the irrelevant and the superfluous out of the bag. 7. More of the same. 8. Coercive, without aspect.

Photograph by Norbert Schoerner from The Concise Dictionary of Dress publication, published by Violette Editions in association with Artangel. The Concise Dictionary of Dress was at Blythe House from April - June 2010. Installation by Judith Clark, text by Adam Phillips. See here for details.