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Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, performatism, and post-postmodernism. This book expands on the nascent scholarship of post-postmodernism to highlight how dress, fashion, and appearance are reflections of this new age.
The volume starts with a discussion of fashion, subjectivity, and time and an analysis of temporality, technology, and fashion in post-postmodern times. Later chapters analyse the work of design houses and mass producers such as Vetements, Gucci, and Uniqlo whose products align with post-postmodern aesthetics, hyperconsumption, and hypermodern branding. The book looks at diverse geographic and identity markers by discussing post-postmodernism and the religio-politico-cultural questions in South Asian Muslim fashion, image and identity presentation in queer social networking apps, and by exploring fashion designer Tom Ford's output as a movie director. Two chapters discuss the post-postmodern fashion exhibition with analyses of recent exhibitions and an in-depth look at the work of exhibition maker Judith Clark. The final chapter is written by members of The Rational Dress Society, a counter-fashion collective that makes JUMPSUIT, an experimental garment to replace all clothes.
Fashion, Dress, and Post-postmodernism is a companion to research on relationships between post-postmodernism, fashion, and dress, and the go-to resource for researchers and students interested in these areas.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Fashion Phenomena and the Post-postmodern Condition: Inquiry and Speculation, Marcia A. Morgado
2.Fashion, Subjectivity, and Time: From Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism to Lipovetsky's Hypermodernity, Eun Jung Kang
3. With No Twist: The Metamodern Sartorial Statement of Vetements, Alla Eizenberg
4. Intensified: Alessandro Michele's Hyperaesthetic at Gucci, Nigel Lezama
5. Hypermodern Branding: The Case of Uniqlo, Myles Ethan Lascity
6. Post-Postmodernity and South Asian Muslim Women's Fashion, Iqra Shagufta Cheema
7. Lights, Camera, Fashion: Tom Ford's A Single Man, Nocturnal Animals, and the Designer as Director, Grant Johnson
8. Seeing Selves: The Absent Body in the Museum and the Work of Exhibition Maker Judith Clark, Caroline Bellios
9. The Post-Postmodern Fashion Exhibition, Dennita Sewell
10. Counter-fashion, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury and Maura Brewer
Conclusion, José Blanco F
Bibliography
Index
