English Summary/英文概要： Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga’s raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery’s performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.

Awards/获奖情况： ’Experimental Fashion is very well written and rich in illustrations. It is highly engaging and thought-provoking. It is a very welcome contribution to the field of fashion studies, not least through its attention to an aspect of fashion - experimental fashion - that has so far been given little attention.’ - Agnes Rocamora, London College of Fashion University of London, author of Fashioning the City