Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Authoring Fashion, Intersecting Sex and Gender -- Introduction -- Maria Grazia Chiuri's 'We Should All Be Feminists' T-Shirt for Christian Dior: Branding, identity and authorship -- Between the womb and the gay parade: Alexander McQueen's 'The Widows of Culloden' as poetic text -- Subverting the symbolic order: McQueen's abject woman -- Conclusion: Squaring up to the phallic mother -- Notes -- 2 Written on the body: Fashion, clothing and age -- Introduction -- 'Active ageing', youthfulness and fashion -- 'Fashion For All Ages' and the new old model army -- Race and reversing convention -- 'States of truth and fiction': Ari Seth Cohen and Magali Nougare`de -- Conclusion: From idiotic methods to the realities of time and place -- Notes -- 3 (Un) Gendering the runway -- Introduction -- Forerunners of transgender and non-binary identities in fashion -- The advent of transgendered models -- The abject trans-model -- Between abjection and acceptance -- 'Come into the (trans)garden': The heterotopia of fashion -- The authentic self -- Other models: Intersectionality and wider diversity in the fashion industry -- Tokenism versus activism -- Conclusion: Between tokenism and authenticity -- Notes -- 4 Loving the alien: Fashion and cyborg identities -- Introduction -- Andrea Giacobbe and 'Simplex Concordia' -- Alessandro Michele and the Gucci Cyborg -- Compromising race and diversity -- A 'genuine cyborg manifesto'? -- Conclusion: Towards emancipatory possibilities -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic references -- Index -- Imprint.

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