Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism

About the Author
José Blanco F. is originally from Costa Rica. He is a Professor in the Department of Fashion at Dominican University. His research focuses on dress and popular culture in the second half of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on male fashion. He is also interested in fashion and visual culture in Latin America. José has contributed chapters in readers including The Fashion Reader, The Handbook of Masculinity Studies, The Fashion Business Reader, The Meanings of Dress, and Transglobal Fashion Narratives: Clothing Communication, Style Statements and Brand Storytelling. He has published essays in journals including Fashion Theory, Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, Critical Studies in Men's Fashion, Dress, and The Journal of Popular Culture. He has co-authored with Raúl J. Vázquez-López several articles and book chapters on Puerto Rican dress, costume, and fashion.
José is also the general editor of the multi-award winning four-volume encyclopedia Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, a co-author for the textbook Guide to Producing a Fashion Show, and co-editor of the recently published volume Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism.
Andrew Reilly, PhD, is a Professor of Fashion Design and Merchandising at University of Hawai`i, Manoa.
Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermodernism, digimodernism, performatism, and post-postmodernism. This book expands on the nascent scholarship of post-postmodernism to highlight how dress, fashion, and appearance are reflections of this new age.
The volume starts with a discussion of fashion, subjectivity, and time and an analysis of temporality, technology, and fashion in post-postmodern times. Later chapters analyse the work of design houses and mass producers such as Vetements, Gucci, and Uniqlo whose products align with post-postmodern aesthetics, hyperconsumption, and hypermodern branding. The book looks at diverse geographic and identity markers by discussing post-postmodernism and the religio-politico-cultural questions in South Asian Muslim fashion, image and identity presentation in queer social networking apps, and by exploring fashion designer Tom Ford's output as a movie director. Two chapters discuss the post-postmodern fashion exhibition with analyses of recent exhibitions and an in-depth look at the work of exhibition maker Judith Clark. The final chapter is written by members of The Rational Dress Society, a counter-fashion collective that makes JUMPSUIT, an experimental garment to replace all clothes.
Fashion, Dress, and Post-postmodernism is a companion to research on relationships between post-postmodernism, fashion, and dress, and the go-to resource for researchers and students interested in these areas.