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Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
Francesca Granata
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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. The book 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, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure ... Read more
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. The book 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, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Dress Cultures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784533786
SKU
V9781784533786
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Ref
99-5
About Francesca Granata
Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons the New School for Design, New York. She is the editor and founder of the journal Fashion Projects. Her work has appeared in Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and The Journal of Design History, as well as in a number of books and exhibition catalogues.
Reviews for Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
'Experimental Fashion is very well written and rich in illustrations. It is highly engaging and thought-provoking. It is a very welcome contribution to the field of fashion studies, not least through its attention to an aspect of fashion - experimental fashion - that has so far been given little attention.' - Agnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion University of London, ... Read more