Francesca Granata

Experimental Fashion (eBook, ePUB)

Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 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 Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786720290
• Artikelnr.: 52341360

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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