Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism

Scholars 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 discuss the post-postmodern fashion exhibition with analyses of recent exhibitions and an in-depth look at the work of exhibition maker Judith Clark. The final chapter is written by members of The Rational Dress Society, a counter-fashion collective that makes JUMPSUIT, an experimental garment to replace all clothes. Fashion, Dress, and Post-postmodernism is a companion to research on relationships between post-postmodernism, fashion, and dress, and the go-to resource for researchers and students interested in these areas.

José Blanco F. is Professor and Department Chair at Dominican University, USA. Andrew Reilly is Associate Professor at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, USA.

Acknowledgements 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