Experimental Fashion

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Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

By Professor Francesca Granata

Series: Dress Cultures

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Experimental Fashion explores the rise of grotesque and carnivalesque aesthetics in contemporary fashion, linking fashion with performance art. It examines boundary-pushing creators such as Leigh Bowery, Lady Gaga, Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, and Rei Kawakubo, highlighting how they challenge conventional ideas of the fashionable body through parody, humour and inversion.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary fashion theory, performance art, cultural studies, and innovative design. Suitable for students, scholars, and anyone curious about how fashion challenges societal norms and perceptions of the body.

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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.

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Praised for reframing Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque body in fashion and offering fresh insights at the edges of fashion and design history. Reviewers commend its timely engagement with cultural anxieties and the gap it fills in fashion studies by focusing on experimental fashion and the intersection with performance art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350248007

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 52 integrated bw

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 541g

Pages: 232

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Professor Francesca Granata Series: Dress Cultures

About the Author

Francesca Granata is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons the New School for Design, New York. She is the editor and founder of the journal Fashion Projects. Her work has appeared in Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and The Journal of Design History, The Atlantic as well as in a number of books and exhibition catalogues.