Fashion installation : body, space, and performance / Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geczy, Adam, author.

Karaminas, Vicki, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion and art.

Fashion--Marketing.

Fashion.

Physical Description:

145p. ; ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Summary:

"Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier's new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to the internet, fashion film and, more recently, fashion installations. This book offers a critical evaluation of the changing ways in which fashion has been exhibited, focusing specifically on the recent turn toward installation, whether in the form of static presentations, interactive performances or the more conventional curated designer exhibition. Connecting viewers - and consumers - on an immersive level, the fashion world has begun to appropriate installation methods traditionally associated with displays of experimental art, transcending the runway system and its constraints. This book turns to the designers who have pioneered fashion installations, such as Aitor Throup, Muccia Prada, Walter Van Beirendonck and Hussein Chalayan among others, and also looks back to the early influential fashion displays by designers such as Worth and Poiret to provide historical context. Divided into three parts, and covering a variety of installations from Vivienne Westwood's fashioned 'concept' stores to Gareth Pugh's immersive films, this ground-breaking book positions the designer as the curator and exhibition-maker and offers the first focused study of the pertinent concept of fashion installation."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Illustrations Introduction: Installing Fashion

1: Body: Mise en Scène

2: Fashion (Almost) Without Bodies

3: Body-in-Space and the Gesamtkunstwerk

Conclusion: Fashion is a (Dis)Embodied Practice, or the Persistence of Perfume Bibliography Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350032538

1350032530

9781350032545

1350032549

9781350032507

1350032506

OCLC:

1089126004