Designturgy
The Design and Performance of Costuming from Makeup Technologies to Digital Fashion
Designturgy
The Design and Performance of Costuming from Makeup Technologies to Digital Fashion
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What if your garments and cosmetics were not merely a static “look,” but a living script for how you inhabit-and command-the world?
Exploring the vanguard intersection of fashion, performance, science, and material culture, Designturgy inaugurates this groundbreaking new discipline-one that combines design and dramaturgy to expose design's inherently action-driven nature, interrogating its manifestations not as static forms, but as active agents of performance and playmaking.
To do this, the text draws on core dramaturgical methodologies-from script analysis, historical reenactment, the dynamics of time and motion, to new play development-to reveal how design functions on the stage, the runway, and in everyday life. Alongside these performance practices, the text inventively maps Nature's elemental cycle of play (the ancient Wu Xing framework) onto the cutting edge of global style. Moving beyond ephemeral fashion trends, it equips readers with interdisciplinary tools to “take the pulse” of the elemental, historical, socio-cultural, and technological currents animating the global body.
Through this transformative prism, a star-studded cast of cultural icons comes alive: from the “unmasked Hard face” of supermodel Liu Wen, and the “tempo-kinetic landscapes” of Iris van Herpen, to the “lush ecosystems” of Machine Dazzle and Taylor Mac, the “savage fire” of Rihanna, and the “quantum play” of Kitty Yeung. Together, they embody the perpetually evolving play of design.
Ultimately, Designturgy offers a vital new playbook for decoding design's key role in global performance culture, inviting readers to navigate the endless interplay between hard and soft, fast and slow, high and low ... in all their infinities. This is an open invitation to unearth the unseen forces shaping contemporary style. Stop just looking at design-start playing through it.
The stage is set. The pulse is yours to take.
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Table of Contents
Act One. Earth Generates Metal: The Play of Hard and soft
1. Theory and “Script” Analysis in Liu Wen's Global Asian Face
Act Two. Metal Generates Water: The Play of Fast and Slow
1. Time and Motion in Iris van Herpen
Act Three. Water Generates Wood: The Play of Bare and Lush
1. Layering and Reenactment in Machine Dazzle and Taylor Mac
Act Four. Wood Generates Fire: The Play of High and Low
1. Affect-Aesthetic and Sacred Embodiment in Rihanna
Act Five. Fire Generates Earth: The Play of Raw and Ripe
1. New Play Development in Kitty Yeung
Coda
Bibliography
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Product details
| Published | 15 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350446083 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Series | Costumed Politics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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