Experimental Fashion

ISBN: 9781784533786 出版年：2017 页码：234 Francesca Granata Bloomsbury Publishing

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication AwardExperimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, frraw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at ttwenty-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, aLeigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.