Fashion
As
Body-Becoming,
Post-Cloth & Inverted Gesture
Notes from talk at INTERMESH forum on Fashion, Centre of
Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2004
1.
Fashion as 'body-becoming'
a. Street kids & deformed stretching
b. BBWs and T-shirt crisis
c. Boy chefs & wife-dressing
2.
Fashion as 'post-cloth'
a. The cult of the inner-self & EXTREME MAKE-OVER
b. Penile implants & dressing from the inside
3.
Fashion as 'inverted gesture'
a. The hip-o-meter game & 80s retro
b. The Gaultier-effect & too-late-punk
c. Chambray shirts & THE PANEL
4.
Encore
a. The embarrassment of MAD MAX.
