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Fashion and the Limits of the Human: Zoomorphism as a Topos of Fashionable Imagery in the 19th–21st Centuries

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Fashion and the Limits of the Human: Zoomorphism as a Topos of Fashionable Imagery in the 19th–21st Centuries
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Caricatures of fashionistas turning into exotic insects or sea creatures; stuffed birds as hat decoration; live cheetahs as an ultra-fashionable accessory — the fashion of the last two centuries has been fascinated by animal images. In her monograph, Ksenia Gusarova analyzes the surge of zoomorphic imagery in fashion in the second half of the 19th century and seeks to find answers to a number of important questions: why, starting in the 1860s, zoomorphism became a leitmotif of fashion practices and how is this related to the ideas of Charles Darwin? What does the choice of zoomorphic outfits in a particular historical period say about the wearers themselves and what ideas about nature do such images express? How have modern fashion designers like Elsa Schiaparelli and Alexander McQueen rethought the legacy of Victorian animalism? Ksenia Gusarova is a PhD in cultural studies, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical and Cultural Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities, and an associate professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Social Communication at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
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