04422nam a2200229z 4500 260113n xx | u||| ||und u 9781350466043 tbs en Beyer, Judith 26678 Antigender Fashion The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design / Judith Beyer London Bloomsbury 2025 256 pages 234 x 156 mm Dress, Body, Culture 1. Troubling Gender: On the Proliferation of Gender and the Performativity of Fashion — Sex, Gender, and Performativity — Trans* and the Proliferation of Gender — The Performativity of Fashion: Fashion's System of Signification in Post-Postmodernity — 2. Tracing Fluidity: Understanding Moments of Gender-Blurring Fashion — Moment I: Bohemians in the Nineteenth Century — Moment II: Female Masculinities in the 1920s — Moment III: Youth and Countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s — Moment IV: Ck One, Unisex, and Millennial Masculinities — 3. Antigender Fashion; or, Why Can't Girls Have Dicks and Boys Have Boobs? — Anti-Fashion and Subculture: Anti-Fashion as ‘Confrontational’ Dress — Anti-Fashion and Queerness: Anti-Fashion as Oppositional Dress — Anti-Fashion and Feminism: Anti-Fashion as Protest — Philosophical Perspectives on Anti-Fashion: A Dialectical Approach — From Anti-Fashion to Antigender Fashion — 4. JW Anderson: The Architecture of Antigender Fashion — Millennial Masculinity and JW Anderson's Beginnings — Moment I: (Re-)Building the Architecture of Man and Woman — Moment II: Out of Proportion or Fashioning the Grotesque Antigendered Body — Moment III: The Camp, the Carnival, the Surreal of Antigender Fashion — 5. Alessandro Michele and Gucci: The Bricolage of Antigender Fashion — Gender Fluidity Goes Mainstream: The Making and Breaking of Gucci — Moment I: Gucci's New Man – Antigender Fashion and the Floral Suit — Moment II: Time Leaps, Détournement, and Memory — Moment III: The Bricolage, the Cyborg, and the Post-Human of Antigender — 6. Art School: Dressing the Queer and Antigendered Body — Designing with and within London's Queer/Trans* Community — Moment I: Performing Fashion, Performing Queerness – Staging Antigender Fashion — Moment II: Antigender Bodies In-Between – Dressing Intersectionalities or the Trans*, Ageing, Fat, and Disabled Body — Moment III: On Gothic Queer Cultures – the Uncanny Horror in Art School's Antigender Fashion — 7. No Sesso: Styling the Black, Antigendered, and Afrofuturist Body — On Disidentification and Designing for an Inclusive Future — Moment I: Antigender Streetwear — Moment II: Reusing, Recycling, and Remembering — Moment III: Antigender and Afrofuturism. An open access book, Antigender Fashion is a rich examination of gender fluidity in contemporary fashion design, Judith Beyer develops an emerging new theoretical framework for understanding how fashion can blur and challenge gender boundaries. How is gender fluidity in contemporary fashion different from 20th century androgyny or millennial unisex styles? Like antifashion, which opposes and challenges fashion, Beyer argues that antigender fashion seeks to dismantle and confront binary gender signifiers. After tracing the history of gender-blurring fashion from Marlene Dietrich's androgynous tailoring to Alessandro Michele's floral Gucci suits, case studies of four high-profile fashion brands reveal the diverse approaches to gender-fluidity in contemporary fashion. Investigating each case study through multiple theoretical perspectives – from gender studies to gothic horror, cyborg theory to Afrofuturism – Beyer situates antigender fashion in a rich theoretical landscape and illuminates exciting new critical directions for students and researchers. Can antigender fashion influence the construction of contemporary masculinities and femininities – and can it be a catalyst for change? The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective. Fashion design 9703 Gender expression 13047 Queer theory 26679 Transgender people—Clothing 26680 ddc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2026-01-28 0 GT170 BEY 2026-01-28 1 2026-01-28 1 SOON AVAILABLE 5307 5307