Francesca Granata

Comprehensive monograph showcasing Swedish fashion designer Ann-Sofie Back s work between 1998 2018. The book features extensive imagery of Back s collections, runway shows, lookbooks, styling work, exhibitions and press coverage, as well as interviews, articles, and texts by Back herself. The book provides a complete overview of Back s career and impact on the global fashion industry. Ann-Sofie Back graduated from Central St Martin's, London, in 1998 and is known for her subversive and thought-provoking fashion, often inspired by clichés about femininity, shame, and failed glamor. En omfattande monografi över den svenska modedesignern Ann-Sofie Backs arbete mellan 1998-2018. Boken innehåller ett genomgripande bildmaterial av Backs kollektioner, modevisningar, lookbooks, stylinguppdrag, utställningar, pressarkiv, samt intervjuer och artiklar, och även texter av Back själv. Boken ger en komplett genomgång av Backs karriär och hennes betydelse för den globala modeindustrin. Ann-Sofie Back tog examen från Central St Martin's i London år 1998. Hon är omtalad för sitt subversiva och tankeväckande mode, ofta inspirerat av klichéer om kvinnlighet, skam och misslyckad glamour.

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award.Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the 21st century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.

Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication AwardExperimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.