Deconstruction fashion : the making of unfinished, decomposing and re-assembled clothes

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Abstract

In this chapter I wish to outline the complexities of using the name "deconstruction" to describe a style of clothing fashion, while at the same time enabling its association with fashion. In doing so, I am using the very terms of a glib or facile nomenclature" "deconstruction fashion"" to seek a serious relation of fashion and its debt to philosophy. The article will remain obedient to the topic under consideration, in that any form that I introduce like "deconstruction fashion" and "deconstruction philosophy" can only end in an unravelling and decomposition peculiar to deconstructive thinking.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFashion Theory: A Reader
EditorsMalcolm Barnard
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages651-671
Number of pages21
Edition2nd
ISBN (Electronic)9781315099620
ISBN (Print)9781138296930
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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