The Glasshouse collection is one overall. We booked a studio for a day, put a sheet of fluted polycarbonate between the lens and the garment, and moved the garment backwards and forwards behind it.
What survives
The belt reads through two panes. The collar does not — it dissolves into the flutes almost immediately. Volume survives everything; detail survives nothing. This is obvious in retrospect and was not obvious at nine in the morning.
We kept the frame where you can barely see the garment, because it was the one that made us understand the cut.
The practical outcome was that we stopped putting a topstitched detail on the collar, since nobody standing more than two metres away was going to register it.
