Borderless Fashion Practice

Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-9788-3437-8
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age principally engages the work of four fashion designers -- Virgil Abloh, Aitor Throup, Iris Van Herpen, and Eckhaus Latta -- whose work intersects with other creative disciplines such as art, technology, science, architecture, and graphic design. They do their work in what Vanessa Gerrie calls the metamodern age -- the time and place where the polarization between the modern and the postmodern collapses. Used as a framework to understand the current Western cultural zeitgeist, Gerrie's exploration of the work of contemporary practitioners and theorists finds blurred borders and seeks to blur them further, to the point of erasure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerrie, Vanessa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Modedesign, Stoffe, Schmuckdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Grafikdesign, Kommunikationsdesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Theoretical Framework
- Chapter Two: Fashion in the Academy
- Chapter Three: Fashion’s Democratization
- Chapter Four: Collaboration and Experimentation Between Fashion and Art
- Chapter Five: Fashion as Concept
- Chapter Six: Virgil Abloh’s Democratic Fashion Practice
- Chapter Seven: Aitor Throup’s Divergent Design
- Chapter Eight: Iris Van Herpen’s “New Couture”
- Chapter Nine: Eckhaus Latta’s Community-Led Brand
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index