Your favorite gay curator has done it again. Jonathan Katz makes up for everything the Met's Costume Institute has ignored all these years: On display at FIT through January 4, A Queer History of Fashion showcases about 100 ensembles spanning 300 years.
Get the catalog A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk
The publisher: "From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ community, as well, even as early as the 18th century. This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people, especially since the 1950s, to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion.
"Contributions by some of the world’s most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion – including Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan D. Katz, Peter McNeil, and Elizabeth Wilson – investigate topics such as the context in which key designers’ lives and works form part of a broader “gay” history; the “archeology” of queer attire back to the homosexual underworld of 18th-century Europe; and the influence of LGBTQ subcultural styles from the trouser suits worn by Marlene Dietrich (which inspired Yves Saint Laurent’s “Le Smoking”) to the iconography of leather. Sumptuous illustrations include both fashion photography and archival imagery."
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Posted by: page | November 13, 2013 at 04:53 AM
Once again, Band of Thebes sends me in the right direction. Thank you. I went to this exhibit yesterday and loved it.
Posted by: Sandy | December 27, 2013 at 01:40 PM