Full Description
In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal 'complex space' - or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.
Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.
Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari
Transformations and Translations
1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity
Francesca Granata
2. The Emirati burqa. 'An Intimate Object' from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective.
Karima Al Shomely
3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion - a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory.
Paul Jobling
Stages and Places
4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi's Poetics of Clothed Performance.
Emmanuel Cohen
5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse.
Jacki Willson
6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa.
Victoria L. Rovine
7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics.
Jonathan Michael Square
Models and Poses
8. The Utopian 'No-Place' of the Fashion Photograph.
Karen de Perthuis
9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity.
Gabriele Monti
10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012.
Louise Wallenberg
11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing.
Royce Mahawatte
List of Contributors
Index
