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Fashion Art. Mode als Kunst und Kunst als Mode

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  • Internal authorship

  • Publishment

    • 2024
  • Journal

    Kunstforum international : die aktuelle Zeitschrift für alle Bereiche der bildenden Kunst (September/Oktober 2024)

  • Organizational unit

  • Subjects

    • General cultural studies
    • Performing arts
    • Design theory and history
    • Humanities in general
    • Cultural and intellectual history
    • Art , Art history in general
  • Publication format

    Journal article (Article)

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P. Scorzin, "Fashion Art. Fashion as art and art as fashion," Kunstforum international : the current journal for all areas of the visual arts, vol. 298, no. September/October 2024, pp. 46-83, 2024 [Online]. Available: https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/fashion-art-2/

Content

Can clothing transcend the boundaries of fashion and unfold as a form of art? No creative medium is as close to us as our clothes, but hypes and trends make them appear fast-moving, superficial and unsustainable, which contradicts the more universal messages of a non-(market)conformist art. However, contemporary designers also combine haute couture with the means of fine art, thematize political messages and avant-garde concepts and thus blur the line between art and fashion. Similar to the performative practices of contemporary art, fashion art thus functions as a staging platform that questions social norms and rules and recreates bodies through visual narratives.

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