CAMP: Notes on Fashion

Abstract

Drawing from Susan Sontag's seminal essay, this striking volume explores the meaning of and its expression in fashion from its origins to today Although an elusive concept, camp can be found in most forms of artistic expression, revealing itself through an aesthetic of deliberate stylization. Fashion is one of the most overt and enduring conduits of the aesthetic. As a site for the playful dynamics between high art and popular culture, fashion both embraces and expresses such modes of enactment as irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration. Drawing from Susan Sontag's seminal essay Notes on Camp, the book explores how fashion designers have used their metier as a vehicle to engage with the aesthetic in compelling, humorous, and sometimes incongruous ways. As a sartorial manifestation of the sensibility, this thought-provoking publication contributes new theoretical and conceptual insights into the canon through texts and images. Stunning new photography by Johnny Dufort highlights works by such fashion designers as Virgil Abloh, Thom Browne, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Alessandro Michele, Franco Moschino, Miuccia Prada, Richard Quinn, Yves Saint Laurent, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jeremy Scott, Anna Sui, Gianni Versace, and Vivienne Westwood.

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