"Fashionism"
Performance/ Fashion Design
Open End Gallery
Chicago, Il
"Fashionism" Performance/fashion event. Chicago, 2003
Models appear wearing original fashion designs and vacuformed plastic helmets derived from a 360 degree view of Brogger's profile; a reference to an official portrait of Mussolini, "Continuous Profile Del Duce," by Renato Bertelli in 1933,The title "Fashionism was meant as a pun on the term "body politic" and summoned connections, between political and artistic movements of early 20th century Europe and the ongoing use of fashion to express societal positions.
Models appear wearing original fashion designs and vacuformed plastic helmets derived from a 360 degree view of Brogger's profile; a reference to an official portrait of Mussolini, "Continuous Profile Del Duce," by Renato Bertelli in 1933,The title "Fashionism was meant as a pun on the term "body politic" and summoned connections, between political and artistic movements of early 20th century Europe and the ongoing use of fashion to express societal positions.
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