The avant-garde in fashion is often clothing that departs from functionality and the boundaries of the body. Perhaps the term would now be “queering” fashion, but fashion throughout much time and space has been constrictive and a practice of the elite class. If the term queer still had any meaning it would serve well to call the pieces found in the pages of Haute Couture magazines to mean eccentric and unconventional, which describes this kind of artistic expression well. Fashion is also a way to signify class. People become possessed by the idea of presenting themselves in the latest trends and fashions so as not to commit the dreaded fashion faux pas. Fashion is a way for people to buy into the prescribed micro identities meant to generate human capital.
Stunning writing! You've captured the capture of trans ideology, oversex culture and anti-woman seams, tucks, pleats and ruffles! Ute Heggen from uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com
Stunning writing! You've captured the capture of trans ideology, oversex culture and anti-woman seams, tucks, pleats and ruffles! Ute Heggen from uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com
Very good analysis, thank you.
I did this send up of trans.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/transgender-and-other-trans-words-definitions/