By Piper Weiss

Mothers are humans, too...fashionable humans! ahead of we got here alongside to yank on their skirts, they confirmed leg, sported killer bangs, and flaunted bikinis. a few even wore feathers and halter tops and drove round on bikes. was once their variety stunning? sure. Covetable? totally. according to Piper Weiss's highly well known web publication of an analogous identify, this publication gains 2 hundred colour pictures from many years prior of mothers displaying us how its performed. an ideal present for moms, daughters, and elegance experts, My mother, sort Icon is an wonderful get together of the very first—and such a lot important—style icon in a tender woman's existence.

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It is curious to reflect on Lady Gaga’s proclamation that she is a cyborg, which is of a piece with Barney’s reduction of his body to a set of tensile trajectories or to alluringly grotesque walking sculptures. Between Matthew Barney and Lady Gaga there are only differences of degree rather than kind. Cit. Gordon Burn, ‘Matthew Barney’, Sex & Violence, Death & Silence, London: Faber and Faber, 2009, 216. ’: IDENTITY ART AND THE EXPECTATIONS OF RACE T oday, when artistic identity has become a carapace almost as contrived and self-consciously projected to the outward world as a celebrity – remembering that ‘being natural’ is itself already a style – contemporary art also finds itself obsessed with cultural identity.

On a more complex and elaborate scale, Jeff Koons runs a studio not unlike how a successful designer would oversee his label where dozens if not hundreds of designers at various levels of experience and authority have a hand in design and execution. Having made his fortune earlier on the stock market, Koons’ studio is very much a business: it is just that the business happens to be art. Gregor Muir, a writer from the same generation as Damien Hirst, describes in great detail the ascendance of the artist.

In a significant book on fashion theorists, Michael Carter comments on Simmel’s examination of certain fashion types such as the bohemian and the dandy: The ‘dandy’ and the ‘bohemian’, in fact what has become known as cultural subgroups, can be differentiated by specifying the precise ways, and amounts, in which opposite tendencies are brought together. For instance the ‘dandy’ achieves an increase in the degree of individual differentiation by intensifying the rules of dress that are the norm within the group while the ‘bohemian’ may attempt differentiation by violating such rules.

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