Androgyne
Subtitle: fashion + gender
By: Patrick Mauriès ; text translated from the French by Barbara Mellor
Contributors: Mellor, Barbara, translator
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780500519356
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Gender identity in art; Androgyny (Psychology) in art; Fashion; Androgyny (Psychology); Pictorial works
Other titles: Fashion and gender; Fashion plus gender; Androgyny
Description: In January 2011, Jean Paul Gaultier's haute couture runway show ended with the image of a willowy blonde bride in a diaphanous gown. The bride was a man, and one of the first models to walk for both men's and women's collections. The event marked the start of a trend. "This ad is gender neutral," proclaimed a 2016 poster for the fashion brand Diesel; "I resist definitions," announced a Calvin Klein ad in the same year, while a Louis Vuitton shoot featured Jaden Smith wearing a skirt.The art of Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau, the writings of Oscar Wilde, and the mystic Josephin Peladan prove that the turn of the previous century was as compelled by androgyny as this one. Patrick Mauries presents a cultural history of androgyny--accompanied by a striking selection of more than 120 images, from nineteenth-century painting to contemporary fashion photography--drawing on the worlds of art and literature to give us a deeper understanding of the strange but timeless human drive to escape from defined categories.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-185) and index.

Translated into English from the original French.
Table of contents: title: Beneath the veil; title: 'A length of horsehair twine'; title: A body of ivory; title: The inverted body; title: Opposing anatomies; title: Life as a novel; title: Civilization and its discontented; title: An amphibious creature; title: Puer senilis; title: The 'Androgynosphinx'; title: Amazons; title: Flaming creatures; title: A certain Mr Fish; title: 'Ladies and Gentlemen...and others'; title: The latest mode.