Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

Cover\nHalf-title\nSeries information\nTitle page\nCopyright information\nDedication\nTable of contents\nList of figures\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n1 Against Power Dressing\n	The maternal and the grotesque\n	Georgina Godley’s background\n	Body-altering garments\n	Corporate coding\n2 Fashioning the Maternal Body\n	Kawakubo and Merce Cunningham’s Scenario 1997\n	Kawakubo, Cunningham and the ‘uncanny maternal’\n3 Performing Pregnancy\n	Leigh Bowery’s background\n	Pregnant looks\n	Birth performances\n	Bowery and 1980s fashion\n4 Deconstruction and the Grotesque\n	Journalistic reception\n	Fashion of inversion\n	Playing with scale: giants and dolls\n		Giants: the oversized collections\n		Dolls: the magnified collections\n	Farcical discrepancy\n5 Carnivalised Time\n	Margiela’s work and alternative temporalities\n	‘Theatre Costumes’ collection: spring/summer 1993\n	‘Tromp-l’oeil’ collection: spring/summer 1996\n	Performing garments: Martin Margiela’s Rotterdam exhibition\n6 Carnival Iconography\n	Carnival iconography\n	Carnivalesque practices\n		Absurd\n		Humour and horror\n		Debasement\n7 The Proliferation of the Grotesque\n	Lady Gaga and experimental fashion\n	Lady Gaga and fat drag\n	Fashion, performance and performativity\n	Fashioning the grotesque\nAppendix\n	Interview with Nicola Bowery\n	Interview with Georgina Godley\nNotes\n	Introduction\n	Chapter 1 Against Power Dressing: Georgina Godley\n	Chapter 2 Fashioning the Maternal Body: Rei Kawakubo\n	Chapter 3 Performing Pregnancy: Leigh Bowery\n	Chapter 4 Deconstruction and the Grotesque: Martin Margiela\n	Chapter 5 Carnivalised Time: Martin Margiela\n	Chapter 6 Carnival Iconography: Bernhard Willhelm\n	Chapter 7 The Proliferation of the Grotesque: Lady Gaga\nBibliography\n	Books and Articles\nFilmography\nIndex