Adversarial Fashion: Fashion that Fights Surveillance
This article is a repost of an article I had previously published on UIUC’s “The Fashion Network” Substack.
Do any of you remember that photo of Paris Hilton in an “anti-paparazzi” scarf that went viral on the internet a few years back? It looks a little something like this:
Image Source: Snopes, who got it from @lohanisgod on Twitter/X
At first, the scarf looks like any random scarf from the 2010s, with bright colors and bold patterns— but its true nature is revealed once the photographer takes her picture with flash.