Karen De Perthuis
Biographic Data
| ID | 177968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen De Perthuis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | De Perthuis |
| SIGNATURE | DE PERTHUIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9133-924X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson
Australians have always had an ambivalent relationship with what is unique about their country. Even as they delighted in the colorful tapestry of its birdlife and wildflowers, artists of the Briti
Breaking the Idea of Clothes
Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is an anomaly in fashion’s celebrity-designer, brand-driven world. Intensely private, she rarely gives interviews; instead she expects those wanting to understand her work to look at the clothing itself. So, when she released a “creative manifesto” that offered insight into the Comme des Garçons spring/summer 2014 collection, it made an impression. In the manifesto, Kawakubo claimed to “break the idea of ‘clothes…
How Fashion Travels
Despite the many transformations in aesthetics and technologies that fashion photography has undergone since its spread as an influential cultural form in the early twentieth century, one constant has always held fast: that the imagery depicts a fashionable ideal. The look of the fashionable ideal is, of course, ever subject to change. However, there are qualities that are always present: the body is subject to the authority of fashion, limitatio…
Darning Mark's Jumper
Some garments demand a narrative of their own. Such was the case with a jumper that I darned for my partner in the winter of 2010. The jumper was old and moth-eaten; Mark was gravely ill with only a few months left to live. In the process of darning, each stitch was an act of love, each passage of the needle restoring something that had been eaten away.This article explores the multiple levels of meaning that run through the narrative I have wove…
People in Fashionable Clothes
This article begins with a long-lens view of the street style blog to see where it fits in the broader frame of fashion photography. From a starting point of uncertainty, the article investigates whether images on street style blogs are indeed fashion photographs or simply, to use Nancy Hall-Duncan’s term, “fashion gesture.” It then follows a path that traces the commercial imperative of the fashion photograph and unfolds how this operates in one…
The Mechanical Smile
The Synthetic Ideal
(2005). The Synthetic Ideal: the Fashion Model and Photographic Manipulation. Fashion Theory: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 407-424
How Fashion Travels
Despite the many transformations in aesthetics and technologies that fashion photography has undergone since its spread as an influential cultural form in the early twentieth century, one constant has always held fast: that the imagery depicts a fashionable ideal. The look of the fashionable ideal is, of course, ever subject to change. However, there are qualities that are always present: the body is subject to the authority of fashion, limitatio…
People in Fashionable Clothes
This article begins with a long-lens view of the street style blog to see where it fits in the broader frame of fashion photography. From a starting point of uncertainty, the article investigates whether images on street style blogs are indeed fashion photographs or simply, to use Nancy Hall-Duncan’s term, “fashion gesture.” It then follows a path that traces the commercial imperative of the fashion photograph and unfolds how this operates in one…
Darning Mark's Jumper
Some garments demand a narrative of their own. Such was the case with a jumper that I darned for my partner in the winter of 2010. The jumper was old and moth-eaten; Mark was gravely ill with only a few months left to live. In the process of darning, each stitch was an act of love, each passage of the needle restoring something that had been eaten away.This article explores the multiple levels of meaning that run through the narrative I have wove…
The Mechanical Smile
The Synthetic Ideal
(2005). The Synthetic Ideal: the Fashion Model and Photographic Manipulation. Fashion Theory: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 407-424
The Synthetic Ideal
(2005). The Synthetic Ideal: the Fashion Model and Photographic Manipulation. Fashion Theory: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 407-424
The Mechanical Smile
People in Fashionable Clothes
This article begins with a long-lens view of the street style blog to see where it fits in the broader frame of fashion photography. From a starting point of uncertainty, the article investigates whether images on street style blogs are indeed fashion photographs or simply, to use Nancy Hall-Duncan’s term, “fashion gesture.” It then follows a path that traces the commercial imperative of the fashion photograph and unfolds how this operates in one…
Darning Mark's Jumper
Some garments demand a narrative of their own. Such was the case with a jumper that I darned for my partner in the winter of 2010. The jumper was old and moth-eaten; Mark was gravely ill with only a few months left to live. In the process of darning, each stitch was an act of love, each passage of the needle restoring something that had been eaten away.This article explores the multiple levels of meaning that run through the narrative I have wove…
Breaking the Idea of Clothes
Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is an anomaly in fashion’s celebrity-designer, brand-driven world. Intensely private, she rarely gives interviews; instead she expects those wanting to understand her work to look at the clothing itself. So, when she released a “creative manifesto” that offered insight into the Comme des Garçons spring/summer 2014 collection, it made an impression. In the manifesto, Kawakubo claimed to “break the idea of ‘clothes…
How Fashion Travels
Despite the many transformations in aesthetics and technologies that fashion photography has undergone since its spread as an influential cultural form in the early twentieth century, one constant has always held fast: that the imagery depicts a fashionable ideal. The look of the fashionable ideal is, of course, ever subject to change. However, there are qualities that are always present: the body is subject to the authority of fashion, limitatio…
Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson
Australians have always had an ambivalent relationship with what is unique about their country. Even as they delighted in the colorful tapestry of its birdlife and wildflowers, artists of the Briti
Art (6 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Clothing (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)