Future Fashion
For over a decade, Liz Sunshine has documented the way we dress. Yet despite her love for fashion, she struggled with how clothes made her feel. This tension led to Our Relationship With Clothes - a project encouraging reflection on personal style and mindful consumption.
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The women depicted are not real, but possibilities of the people we might become - confident, vibrant, and unbound by outdated beauty standards.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 career, most older women she approached politely declined photographs, 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.
explore THE PROJECT
Questioning style and age is a quiet form of activism
In a world driven by fast fashion and fleeting trends, choosing to own clothes longer and embrace aging challenges the pressure to stay endlessly new and youthful. It invites us to slow down, value quality, and connect more deeply with what we wear. Through mindful choices, we push back against overconsumption and celebrate self-expression at every stage of life - a gentle but powerful revolution in how we see fashion, aging, and ourselves.
Accessibility and Availability
Offline reflection activities (Reflection Cubes)
What Future Fashion Stands For
Redefining Aging and Style
Celebrates older women dressing boldly and joyfully, challenging the idea that fashion is only for the young.
Empowering Self-Expression at Every Age
Encourages women to embrace individuality and confidence through clothing, countering the invisibility older women often feel.
Championing Sustainable Fashion Values
Promotes thoughtful consumption and long-term relationships with clothes, inspiring a future less driven by constant newness.
Fostering a New Dialogue About Women and Age
Challenges societal expectations, celebrating older women as vibrant, visible, and worthy of admiration.
Inspiring Future Generations
Offers younger women a joyful, empowered vision of aging and lifelong creativity in style.
FAQ’s
Why AI?
Over her 15-year career, Liz found many older women declined to be photographed, often feeling they'd "passed their time." As a documentary photographer drawn to natural moments, AI offered a way to explore aging and style authentically - without staged shoots - while staying true to her process.
Is there fine art available from this series?
Yes, Future Fashion fine art prints are available in limited editions. For inquiries, please email info@streetsmith.com.au.
