Author Description

Section 1. Transformations and translations. Leigh Bowery: between performance and performativity; Francesca Granata, The new school parsons, New York, USA; Emphatic objects: representing refugees through clothing / Marco Pecorari; Creating the object/performing the subject: self-performances between art and life in Leonor Fini's Oeuvre / Andrea Kollnitz; Beliefs/ritual related to the Emirati Burqa / Karima Al-Shomely, Kingston University, London, UK Section -- Section 2. Stages and places. In store(d) behaviors: on Tsuneko Taniuchi's poetics of performance / Emmanuel Cohen, The New School Parsons, Paris, France; Fashion, performance and the bare flaneuse / Jacki Willson, University of Leeds, UK; Colonies and clothing: the uses of fashion at the intersection of France and West Africa / Victoria L. Rovine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Wiping the slate clean: the utopian 'no-place' of the fashion photograph / Karen de Perthuis, Western Sydney University, Australia -- Section 3. Technologies and techniques. Expanding the fashion experience: fashion photographic imagery and the act of storytelling in digital media / Lee Wright, Liverpool John Moores University, UK; Traversing the screen: the performative dynamic between clothing, wearer and viewer of dress based performance films / Jessica Bugg, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia '; None but those whose courage is unquestionable can venture to be effeminate': fashioned performance and the dandy novel / Royce Mahawatte, Central Saint Martins, London, UK; Italian model? Rethinking the discourse on national identity through the body / Gabriele Monti, IUAV University of Venice, Italy.