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Book SynopsisScholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, performatism, and post-postmodernism. This book expands on the nascent scholarship of post-postmodernism to highlight how dress, fashion, and appearance are reflections of this new age.The volume starts with a discussion of fashion, subjectivity, and time and an analysis of temporality, technology, and fashion in post-postmodern times. Later chapters analyse the work of design houses and mass producers such as Vetements, Gucci, and Uniqlo whose products align with post-postmodern aesthetics, hyperconsumption, and hypermodern branding. The book looks at diverse geographic and identity markers by discussing post-postmodernism and the religio-politico-cultural questions in South Asian Muslim fashion, image and identity presentation in queer social networking apps, and by exploring fashion designer Tom Ford's output as a movie director. Two chapters
Trade ReviewWhat does
post post-modernism mean for fashion’s status in a world gone awry from technological, environmental and political change? At a time of radical transitions, this fresh, authoritative and critically engaging volume brings together original contributions that address this philosophical concept and its impact on the ways that fashion and dress are perceived and consumed. Read and learn. * Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand *
This publication offers the reader a rich theoretical exploration of contemporary fashion with a good breadth of scope that encompasses exhibition and performance. Examining many of the issues pertinent to contemporary discourse,
Fashion, Dress and Post-Postmodernism is an essential read for anyone researching or studying post-postmodernism and dress and fashion. * Gill Stark, Regent’s University London, UK *
The book is an essential and relevant theoretical source for the fashion and dress research sphere. There is no doubt as to its importance for scholars on this particular topic, but also on broader issues such as post postmodernity and its implications, fashion curatorship, sustainability, and the climate crisis, fashion houses in the twenty first century, and sociological studies dealing with the practices of the new subject. * The Journal of Dress History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Fashion Phenomena and the Post-postmodern Condition: Inquiry and Speculation, Marcia A. Morgado 2.Fashion, Subjectivity, and Time: From Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism to Lipovetsky’s Hypermodernity, Eun Jung Kang 3. With No Twist: The Metamodern Sartorial Statement of Vetements, Alla Eizenberg 4. Intensified: Alessandro Michele’s Hyperaesthetic at Gucci, Nigel Lezama 5. Hypermodern Branding: The Case of Uniqlo, Myles Ethan Lascity 6. Post-Postmodernity and South Asian Muslim Women’s Fashion, Iqra Shagufta Cheema 7. Lights, Camera, Fashion: Tom Ford’s A Single Man, Nocturnal Animals, and the Designer as Director, Grant Johnson 8. Seeing Selves: The Absent Body in the Museum and the Work of Exhibition Maker Judith Clark, Caroline Bellios 9. The Post-Postmodern Fashion Exhibition, Dennita Sewell 10. Counter-fashion, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury and Maura Brewer Conclusion, José Blanco F Bibliography Index
