Exploring Nudity in Contemporary Fashion Design

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1. Body Obsession 2. Anthony Vaccarello 3. Rudy Gernreich 4. Vivienne Westwood 5. Alexander McQueen 6. Hussein Chalayan 7. Commes Des Garcons 8. Jacquemus 9. References 10. Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 - 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 - 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 At this age, this era where designers are coming up with the designs where audience will get to see the whole lot of femininity and nudity. Where lot of people might infuse vulgarity …show more content…

Due to his bare clothes/ dresses, he got banned from many cities (Cannes, Vatican City for example), but his belief was completely different from all of the people who were criticizing his designs. His sole purpose was to set the women of that era free, by giving them liberty from legal, social and political restrictions. He believed that he is freeing all the women from wearing the same old clothes that had covered them from head to toe and creating an independent, confident and self made woman from inside of them. Why Rudy is obsessed with nude look?  Rudy has worked in his aunt’s dressing shop when he was 8 years old  He has worked in LA and at his first job he used to wash bodies prior to autopsy  He was exposed to the feminism as soon he entered the fashion industry  In 1930 he learned dancing and that became a major inspiration for Rudy. There he started making costumes for himself and the fellow dancers. As a result he became more inclined towards how a body should move rather than how the dress should look. You will observe in one of his fashion shows where models are not walking normally, instead they were walking like a ballerina dancer with great piece of cloth on …show more content…

http://www.vogue.com/slideshow/13422756/saint-laurent-new-designer-anthony-vaccarello/ 6. http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-22/news/mn-21986_1_fashion-industry 7. http://www.designcatwalk.com/rudi-gernreich-the-father-of-monokini/ 8. https://www.cataloguemagazine.com.au/feature/6-times-that-nudity-was-used-to-send-a-message-in-fashion 9. http://www.vogue.co.uk/shows/spring-summer-2007-ready-to-wear/hussein-chalayan/ 10. http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-1995-ready-to-wear/alexander-mcqueen 11. http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-1997-ready-to-wear/comme-des-garcons 12. http://www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html 13. http://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/barbican-vulgarity-the-spice-of-fashion-life 14. Stylekick | Blog. 2016. #PFW F/W 2014 – Anthony Vaccarello Show | Stylekick | Blog. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.stylekick.com/blog/pfw-fw-2014-anthony-vaccarello-show/. [Accessed 22 November 2016] 15. https://nowfashion.com/jacquemus-ready-to-wear-fall-winter-2015-paris-13778 1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2153483/Its-just-slit-Fashion-designer-Anthony-Vaccarello-A-Lists-favourite-thigh-dresses.html 2.

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