Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

ISBN-13: 9781784533793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str.

Professor Francesca Granata

Opis

Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. Francesca Granata examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, she argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humor, and inversion. Experimental Fashion explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo, and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure, Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.

Recenzje

This is a timely book in that many of the concepts discussed resonate strongly with the current cultural context: gynophobia and fear of the fat feminine body; neoliberalism, corporate greed and the "enterprising self"; and fear of border crossings and the breakdown of cultural categories. Morna Laing, "Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture"

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Against Power Dressing: Georgina Godley Chapter 2 Fashioning the Maternal Body: Rei Kawakubo Chapter 3 Performing Pregnancy: Leigh Bowery Chapter 4 Deconstruction and the Grotesque: Martin Margiela Chapter 5 Carnivalized Time: Martin Margiela Chapter 6 Carnival Iconography: Bernhard Willhelm Chapter 7 Fashion and Performance: Lady Gaga Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

O autorze

Granata, Francesca Francesca Granata is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies at Parsons School of Design. She is the author of Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body, and editor of the non-profit journal Fashion Projects.