Future Fashion
Melbourne
2023
Future Fashion began with a simple question: if I want to own my clothes for a long time, who am I becoming as I age - and how will I dress? This reflection revealed how few images we see of fashionable older women, sparking Liz’s obsession with reimagining a future where they are vibrant, visible, and celebrates creativity, friendship, and aging with pride.
The women depicted are not real, but possibilities of the people we might become - confident, vibrant, and unbound by outdated beauty standards. Groups of women dressed alike symbolise lifelong friendships, the power of camaraderie, and the ways clothing strengthens our sense of self as we age. Throughout Liz’s 15-year documentary fashion photography career, most older women she approached politely declined being photograph, believing their time had passed. In Australia particularly, internal and external judgment silences older women’s visibility. Future Fashion challenges this, presenting aging as beautiful, bold, and worth celebrating. These 100 AI images form an unshoppable, joyful source of inspiration - a rebellion against fashion’s youth-obsessed hyper-consuming echo chamber.
They offer a new future: one where style knows no age limit, where women continue to be seen and valued at every stage of life.
Through Future Fashion, Liz invites reflection on how we age, dress, and strengthen personal identity through clothing when traditional roles fall away. It’s a love letter to our future selves - and a call to imagine aging as a time of freedom and self-expression.
Creating change, one question at a time.
Founded by artist and Photographer Liz Sunshine in 2022, Our Relationship With Clothes (O.R.W.C.) is a soft activism project exploring the connection between people, clothing, identity, and consumption. Through publicly accessible art, storytelling, research, writing, and education, O.R.W.C. creates opportunities for reflection and dialogue about our relationship with clothes and the wider fashion system. The project raises awareness of textile waste and overconsumption while encouraging people to make informed choices that align with their values. O.R.W.C. believes lasting change begins with curiosity, critical thinking, and the collective impact of small actions.