The World's Tallest Closet is a nearly 30-foot closet filled with 3,000 garments, created by 📝Benjamin Von Wong and 📝Laura Francois at the Mall of Arabia in Cairo, Egypt, in 2018.
The structure of recycled steel, aluminum, and wood was filled with donated clothing over five days. The 3,000 garments represent roughly what one Western consumer wears in a lifetime — clothing you from birth to death — turning the abstraction of fashion waste into a full-body experience: viewers stand inside a lifetime of consumption and look up.
The installation compelled thousands of people to shed their excess outfits and commit to more sustainable consumption, and it remains one of the clearest examples of the formula running through Von Wong's work: take a statistic too large to feel, build it at human scale, and let the audience walk into it.