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Experimental Fashion

Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
 
Series: Dress Cultures;
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Number of Volumes: Paperback
 
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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.

Table of Contents:

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