Costume as Truth and as a New Mythology
Dressed Performances of Perestroika
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12588115 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ирина Сироткина (0000-0002-6090-7005, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-217 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fashion Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-704X • E-ISSN: 1751-7419 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1362704x.2018.1417813 |
| OpenAlex | W2792308200 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Clothes can cover, hide and clothe, but they can also denude, unveil and demonstrate. This is especially true of clothes created in protest, in negation of something—that is, of alternative fashion. A nearly global phenomenon, alternative fashion is closely connected with radical social groups and practices, including artistic ones. By opposing the establishment and declaring its conventions and rules false, alternative fashion has an ambition to speak on behalf of the truth. In the former Soviet Union, rock musicians, hippies, punks and other subcultures were deeply marginal, and their attire shocked the general public. Dressed performances of alternative fashion and lifestyle became possible only in the mid-1980s, when Gorbachev’s Perestroika began. They flourished in post-Soviet Russia for about a decade before transforming themselves in either popular entertainment for the rich or a new mythology
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Clothing · Entertainment · Epistemology · Literature · Mythology · Natural (archaeology · Negation · Phenomenon · Political science · Visual arts · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |