Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784533786)

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 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.

Author: Francesca Granata
ISBN-10: 1784533785
ISBN-13: 9781784533786
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2017
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d