Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age principally engages the work of four fashion designers -- Virgil Abloh, Aitor Throup, Iris Van Herpen, and Eckhaus Latta -- whose work intersects with other creative disciplines such as art, technology, science, architecture, and graphic design. They do their work in what Vanessa Gerrie calls the metamodern age -- the time and place where the polarization between the modern and the postmodern collapses. Used as a framework to understand the current Western cultural zeitgeist, Gerrie's exploration of the work of contemporary practitioners and theorists finds blurred borders and seeks to blur them further, to the point of erasure.

Author: Vanessa Gerrie
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 06/16/2023
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781978834361

About the Author
Vanessa Gerrie is a lecturer in critical studies at the College of Creative Arts at Massey University Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her scholarship focuses on art history and theory, visual culture, and media studies, with an emphasis on fashion culture and how it intersects with critical theory.