Fashion, Performance, and Performativity

Andrea Kollnitz is Associate Professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden and (with Louise Wallenberg) editor of Fashion and Modernism (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019). Marco Pecorari is Assistant Professor at Parsons Paris, The New School, France and author of Fashion Remains (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari

Transformations and Translations
1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity
Francesca Granata

2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective.
Karima Al Shomely

3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory.
Paul Jobling

Stages and Places
4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance.
Emmanuel Cohen

5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse.
Jacki Willson

6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa.
Victoria L. Rovine

7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics.
Jonathan Michael Square

Models and Poses
8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph.
Karen de Perthuis

9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity.
Gabriele Monti

10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012.
Louise Wallenberg

11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing.
Royce Mahawatte

List of Contributors
Index