Fashion, Performance, and Performativity

The Complex Spaces of Fashion

Andrea Kollnitz, Professor Marco Pecorari

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
16 December 2021

Performance art; Fashion design & theory; History of fashion; Cultural studies

Series: Dress Cultures

In the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal ‘complex space’ – or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.

Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.

Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.

Edited by: Andrea Kollnitz, Professor Marco Pecorari
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 626g
ISBN: 9781350106192
ISBN 10: 1350106194
Series: Dress Cultures
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 16 December 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari Transformations and Translations 1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity Francesca Granata 2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective. Karima Al Shomely 3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory. Paul Jobling Stages and Places 4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance. Emmanuel Cohen 5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse. Jacki Willson 6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa. Victoria L. Rovine 7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics. Jonathan Michael Square Models and Poses 8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph. Karen de Perthuis 9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity. Gabriele Monti 10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012. Louise Wallenberg 11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing. Royce Mahawatte List of Contributors Index

Andrea Kollnitz is Associate Professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden and (with Louise Wallenberg) editor of Fashion and Modernism (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019). Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor at Parsons Paris, The New School, France and author of Fashion Remains (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021).

Reviews for Fashion, Performance, and Performativity: The Complex Spaces of Fashion

Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism. * Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland *