Fashion, Performance, and Performativity

Andrea Kollnitz is Associate Professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden and (with Louise Wallenberg) editor of Fashion and Modernism (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019).Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor at Parsons Paris, The New School, France and author of Fashion Remains (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAndrea Kollnitz and Marco PecorariTransformations and Translations1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and PerformativityFrancesca Granata2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective. Karima Al Shomely3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory.Paul Jobling Stages and Places4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance.Emmanuel Cohen5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse. Jacki Willson6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa.Victoria L. Rovine7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics.Jonathan Michael SquareModels and Poses8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph.Karen de Perthuis9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity.Gabriele Monti10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012.Louise Wallenberg11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing.Royce MahawatteList of ContributorsIndex

Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism.