Borderless Fashion Practice : Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age

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. Contents Illustrations Introduction 1 On Metamodernism 2 Fashion in the Academy 3 Fashion’s Democratization 4 Collaboration and Experimentation between Fashion and Art 5 Fashion as a Concept 6 Virgil Abloh’s Democratic Fashion Practice 7 Aitor Throup’s Divergent Design 8 Iris van Herpen’s New Couture 9 Eckhaus Latta’s Community-Led Brand Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author