EXPERIMENTAL FASHION

The book traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within 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 the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These people, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the work of designers such as...[Read more]