Publication

2017 - I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, England

Language

English

Word Count

54,250 words, Guess

Page Count

217 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC746.9/2
  • LCCGT523 .G73 2017
  • LCCTT507

Description

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Dress Cultures

Other Editions

  • Experimental fashion: performance art, carnival and the grotesque bodyI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd2017-01-01

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