| Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body Contributor(s): Granata, Francesca (Author), Wilson, Elizabeth (Editor), Lewis, Reina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350248002 ISBN-13: 9781350248007 Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Fashion & Accessories - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 746.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.14 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |