Full Description
How has the fashion industry responded to turn-of-the-millennium non-binary identities? Do they have a supportive or exploitative relationship with queer, trans and ageing subjects? Fashion, Identity, Image unpacks these questions and many more in relation to clothing and representation, identity and body politics in British, European and American culture between 1990 and 2020.
Jobling, Nesbitt and Wong explore issues of intersectionality and inclusivity through groundbreaking shows, including Maria Grazia Chiuri's 'We Should All Be Feminists' catwalk show for Dior (Spring-Summer 2017), Alexander McQueen's 'The Widows of Culloden' collection (Fall-Winter 2006), and the role of transgender models such as Oslo Grace since 2015. Looking to the future of our relationship with fashion, there's also an investigation of the android as a redemptive figure in Alessandro Michele's cross-cultural cyborg collection for Gucci (Autumn-Winter 2018/2019) and the impact of the ageing population with analysis of age and memory in work such as Magali Nougarède's Crossing the Line (2002), and pleasure and morality in fashion publicity since the 1990s for the likes of Calvin Klein, D&G and American Apparel.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Authoring Fashion, Intersecting Sex and Gender
Introduction
Maria Grazia Chiuri's 'We Should All Be Feminists' T-Shirt for Christian Dior: Branding, identity and authorship
Between the womb and the gay parade: Alexander McQueen's 'The Widows of Culloden' as poetic text
Subverting the symbolic order: McQueen's abject woman
Conclusion: Squaring up to the phallic mother
Notes
2. Written on the body: Fashion, clothing and age
Introduction
'Active ageing', youthfulness and fashion
'Fashion For All Ages' and the new old model army
Race and reversing convention
Conclusion: From idiotic methods to the realities of time and place
Notes
3. (Un)Gendering the runway
Introduction
Forerunners of transgender and non-binary identities in fashion
The advent of transgendered models
The abject trans-model
Between abjection and acceptance
'Come into the (trans)garden': The heterotopia of fashion
The authentic self
Other models: Intersectionality and wider diversity in the fashion industry
Tokenism versus activism
Conclusion: Between tokenism and authenticity
Notes
4. Loving the alien: Fashion and cyborg identities
Introduction
Andrea Giacobbe and 'Simplex Concordia'
Alessandro Michele and the Gucci Cyborg
Compromising race and diversity
A 'genuine cyborg manifesto'?
Conclusion: Towards emancipatory possibilities
Notes
Epilogue
