Show time, Paris
Show time, Paris
Fashion is undeniably, even unashamedly, commercial. But how fashion gets itself sold is rarely something we scrutinize too deeply. Rather than set out to catalogue a genre or era of fashion, this exhibition takes as its focus the spectacle of the catwalk and its role in the sale of fashion. Here the catwalk is presented as the crucial stage upon which new fashions first meet the public eye, a theatrical space that thrives on and feeds impossibilities. Rejected is any suggestion that fashion is the innocent result of good taste (as if anyone ever dared to think that) or even the good luck of natural beauty. In its place, this exhibition presents the image of fashion as a complicated industry made up of countless ‘invisible’ individuals who all contribute to the spectacle through which we first consume fashion.
Hemmings, Jessica
21e2ab3b-386a-46c2-8be2-12c78fe4cc22
July 2006
Hemmings, Jessica
21e2ab3b-386a-46c2-8be2-12c78fe4cc22
Hemmings, Jessica
(2006)
Show time, Paris.
Selvedge, (12).
Abstract
Fashion is undeniably, even unashamedly, commercial. But how fashion gets itself sold is rarely something we scrutinize too deeply. Rather than set out to catalogue a genre or era of fashion, this exhibition takes as its focus the spectacle of the catwalk and its role in the sale of fashion. Here the catwalk is presented as the crucial stage upon which new fashions first meet the public eye, a theatrical space that thrives on and feeds impossibilities. Rejected is any suggestion that fashion is the innocent result of good taste (as if anyone ever dared to think that) or even the good luck of natural beauty. In its place, this exhibition presents the image of fashion as a complicated industry made up of countless ‘invisible’ individuals who all contribute to the spectacle through which we first consume fashion.
This record has no associated files available for download.
More information
Published date: July 2006
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 41192
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/41192
PURE UUID: b813f149-d22e-401b-9eaf-54841cb60f9f
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 01 Aug 2006
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 15:52
Export record
Contributors
Author:
Jessica Hemmings
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics