Critical fashion practice : from Westwood to Van Beirendonck /: from Westwood to Van Beirendonck. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas.
• Authors: Geczy, Adam; Karaminas, Vicki
• Contents: Cover page ; Halftitle page ; About the book ; Title page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: FROM SUBCULTURE TO HIGH CULTURE; 1 VIVIENNE WESTWOOD'S UNRULY RESISTANCE; Situationism; "Let it Rock, " "Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, " "SEX, " "Seditionaries" and "World's End"; Boutique bricoleur: the meaning of DIY style; Punk and after: the ontology of contemporary fashion; Westwood in the 1980s; For the love of Englishness: "Harris Tweed, " "Britain Must Go Pagan" and "Anglomania"; Active resistance to propaganda. 2 REI KAWAKUBO'S DECONSTRUCTIVIST SILHOUETTEDeconstruction; Deconstruction and architecture; Deconstruction and fashion; Unclear culture; The inside and outside of clothing; Undead minimalism; 3 GARETH PUGH'S CORPOREAL UNCOMMENSURABILITIES; Masks and performance; Posthumanity and dolls; Immaterial and imaginary fashion; 4 MIUCCIA PRADA'S INDUSTRIAL MATERIALISM; Making ugly cool; Creative collaborations; Prada and cinema; 5 AITOR THROUP'S ANATOMICAL NARRATIVES; Spinozist fashion; Fields of fantasy; The work of fashion in the age of digital reproducibility. He's got legs and knows how to use themSkulls, armor and renunciation; 6 VIKTOR & ROLF'S CONCEPTUAL IMMATERIALITIES; Conceptual art versus conceptual fashion; The appearance of nothing; Ciphers; Dolls; "No" and beyond; 7 RAD HOURANI'S GENDER AGNOSTICS1; Unisex, unsex and the tyranny of gender; Androgyny and the different "third terms"; The body in movement; Fashion as installation; 8 RICK OWENS'S GENDER PERFORMATIVITIES; Minimalism; Glamour, decadence and decay; Spatial art and design, installation and furniture; Fashion's avant-garde; Performance art, performing fashion and gender. 9 WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK'S HYBRID SCIENCE FICTIONSThe 1980s in London; Fetishism, clowns, ritual; Headgear and masks; Bodily mutations, shapes and beauty; CONCLUSION: TO ALEXANDER McQUEEN, IN MEMORIAM; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Plates.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 746.92; History of fashion; Fashion -- Social aspects; Fashion design -- Social aspects; DESIGN -- Fashion; DESIGN -- History & Criticism; DESIGN -- Textile & Costume; ART -- Performance; History of art -- art & design styles; Fashion design & theory; History of art / art & design styles; Design -- Fashion; Design -- History & Criticism; Design -- Textile & Costume; Art -- Performance; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474265553; 1474265553; 9781474265546; 1474265545
• Related ISBNs: 9781474265539; 1474265537; 9781474265522; 1474265529
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.