Fashion Installation: Body, Space, and Performance

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION INSTALLING FASHION
	Art and installation
	Fashion and installation
	The architecture of this book
1 BODY MISE EN SCÈNE
	Exhibitions, arcades, and department stores
	Fashion display versus art display
	The first modern catwalks and shows
	The domesticated theatrics of Lucile
	From Poiret to Rubenstein
	Elsa Sciaparelli and the performative body
2 FASHION (ALMOST)WITHOUT BODIES
	McLaren and Westwood
	From bodiless to clothes to fake bodies: Viktor & Rolfe
	Concept boutiques and pop-up shops
	Honor Thy Heritage: installing nostalgia and authenticity
	The Come Back Kids: British heritage labels and all-American style
	Art installations in boutiques
	Gastro-fashion from haute couture to haute cuisine
3 BODY-IN-SPACE AND THE GESAMTKUNSTWERK
	The Gesamtkunstwerk
	Open-ended installations
	Sealed, or closed installation
	Alternative realities and new technologies
	Fashion film
	Still installation
CONCLUSION FASHION IS A (DIS)EMBODIED PRACTICE, OR, THE PERSISTENCE OF PERFUME
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX