• Experimental Fashion

  • Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

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    "Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque in 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 contemporary designers and performance artists whose work questions established ideas of what represents the fashionable body, posing their challenges through parody, humor, and inversion. The book explores the experimental work of designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, and Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increasing importance of experimental fashion as manifested by the pop phenomenon Lady Gaga." —Bloomsbury Publishing

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