Queer as Style:

Abstract

Although recent investigations on gender and sexualities have attained a considerable space within cultural studies, there is still vast amount of unrevealed accounts on queer identity and its historical, cultural and social constructions. Queer Style, as a white knight for this need, splendidly fills the gap in queer history in its relation to fashion as one of the most important signifier of visual and material identity. Written by visual artist and arts scholar Adam Greczyand and fashion studies professor Vicki Karaminas, this groundbreaking book vibrant with extensive bibliographic research approaches to queerness through the language of garments, mannerisms and accessories; namely [life]style. The authors not only propound a historical background of the queer epoch, but also analyse socio-political impacts of queer look by regarding it both as the subject and the object of socio-sexual paradigm shifts. By melting the variety of subjects in the same pot successfully, the book bestows new knowledge on cultural studies, fashion studies, design studies, and naturally, queer studies.