Staging Fashion: The Fashion Show and Its Spaces

Description

The fashion show and its spaces are sites of otherness, representing everything from rebellion and excess through to political and social activism. This conceptual and stylistic variety is reflected in the spaces they occupy, whether they are staged in an industrial warehouse, on a city street, or out in the open landscape. Staging Fashion is the first collection of essays about the presentation and staging of fashion in runway shows in the period from the 1960s to the 2010s. It offers a fresh perspective on the many collaborations between artists, architects and interior designers to reinforce their interdisciplinary links. Fashion, architecture and interiors share many elements, including design, history, material culture, aesthetics and trends. The research and ideas underpinning Staging Fashion address how fashion and the spatial fields have collaborated in the creation of the space of the fashion show. The 15 essays are written by fashion, interior, architecture and design scholars focusing on the presentation of fashion within the runway space, from avant-garde practices and collaboration with artists, to the most spectacular and commercial shows of recent years, from Prada to Chanel.

Tiziana Ferrero-Regis is a senior lecturer in fashion at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She combines a professional background in the fashion industry and an academic background in cultural studies, film, fashion and costume. Marissa Lindquist is a lecturer in interior design at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. In 2017, Marissa was the recipient of the Women in Research Scholarship at QUT.

Unveils the complexity of collaborations between artists, architects and interior designers in the staging of fashion. -- Simona Segre Reinach, Editor of ZoneModa Journal and Associate Professor in Fashion Studies, The University of Bologna, Italy Presents timely, new scholarship viewed not only through the traditional lens of cultural, social and political events but also through analysis of the spaces where the shows are staged. This book updates existing scholarship on staging fashion by offering an insight into changes in the settings of fashion shows from the post-war period to today. -- Kathryn Dethier, Chair of Design and Professor of Interior Design, Moore College of Art & Design, USA A unique guide to exploring the multiple perspectives of the intersections between fashion shows and the interior spaces in which they take place. It contains compelling insights from a broad and diverse range of renowned scholars, practitioners and educators in these fields. * Graeme Brooker, Royal College of Art, UK *