Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award.
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 21st 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 Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.
| ISBN: | 9781350248007 |
| Publication date: | 11th March 2021 |
| Author: | Francesca Granata |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Series: | Dress Cultures |
| Genres: |
Fashion and textile design Popular culture Material culture Cultural studies Performance art |
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award.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 21st century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body.
Experimental Fashion features in the following genres: Fashion and textile design, Popular culture, Material culture, Cultural studies, Performance art
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Experimental Fashion was written by Francesca Granata and published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Experimental Fashion has 232 pages
Yes it is part of Dress Cultures series
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