Dirk Fleischmann's art projects relate to economic and ecological issues and take place over many years. With The Invisible of the Visible exhibition and the launch of my fashion industries at Front Row in Singapore, Fleischmann presents a fashion label as an art project. He has designed and commissioned the making of a limited edition Crescent Palm shirt, which is now on display at Front Row. The shirt is tailored to the artist's body and in accordance with his own preferences. Like with most of Fleischmann's projects, the concept refers to his subjective biases, aversions and contradictions. In addition, my fashion industries triggers issues of commodity fetishism by redefining the oft-obscured relationship between labour and commodity.

The shirt is manufactured by CS Garment Inc., located inside the Cavite Economic Zone in Rosario, Philippines. In April 2008, Fleischmann lived in Rosario for a month and documented in 36 videos the production of the shirts in the factory and the living conditions of the labourers. It is a portrait of the workers, the factory and the urban situation in relation to the largest free trade zone in the Philippines. Fleischmann uses his Crescent Palm shirt as a link to give an idea of the production conditions of the Cavite Economic Zone to a wider public. Questions of access and locality are set off on different levels throughout the project. The shirt functioned for the artist as an "entry ticket" into the free trade zone because unless one is an employee within the restricted zone, one can only access this place as an investor. The presence of the artist in the place of the shirt production and the extensive video documentation could be understood as a strategy to create a visual map of the city of Rosario with its economic zone. The artist too is included in this map, albeit present only behind the camera.