Fashion, Identity, Image - Jobling, Paul; Nesbitt, Philippa; Wong, Angelene (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022)
Includes bibliographical references
1. Authoring Fashion, Intersecting Sex and Gender: Introduction; Maria Grazia Chiuris We Should All Be Feminists T-Shirt for Christian Dior: Branding, identity and authorship; Between the womb and the gay parade: Alexander McQueens The Widows of Culloden as poetic text; Subverting the symbolic order: McQueens abject woman; Conclusion: Squaring up to the phallic mother; Notes --2. Written on the body: Fashion, clothing and age: Introduction; Active ageing, youthfulness and fashion; Fashion For All Ages and the new old model army; Race and reversing convention; Conclusion: From idiotic methods to the realities of time and place; Notes --3. (Un)Gendering the runway: Introduction; Forerunners of transgender and non-binary identities in fashion; The advent of transgendered models; The abject trans-model; Between abjection and acceptance; Come into the (trans)garden: The heterotopia of fashion; The authentic self; Other models: Intersectionality and wider diversity in the fashion industry; Tokenism versus activism; Conclusion: Between tokenism and authenticity; Notes --4. Loving the alien: Fashion and cyborg identities: Introduction; Andrea Giacobbe and Simplex Concordia; Alessandro Michele and the Gucci Cyborg; Compromising race and diversity; A genuine cyborg manifesto?; Conclusion: Towards emancipatory possibilities; Notes --Epilogue