Experimental fashion
Subtitle: performance art, carnival and the grotesque body
By: Francesca Granata
Series: Dress Cultures; Dress cultures
Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781784533793; 9781784533786
Subjects: Performance art; Fashion and art; Grotesque
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-210), filmography (page 211) and index.