High Glamour: Magical Clothing and Talismanic Fashion
The iconography and visuals associated with magic are highly evocative and responsible for a major part of its appeal. The strong, often iconoclastic imagery exerts a particularly powerful draw for the artist or craftsperson because of its ability to fire the imagination, and to inspire creative wor...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Paganism, art, and fashion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox Publ.
[2020]
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| In: |
The pomegranate
Year: 2019, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 172-185 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Clothing
/ Fashion
/ Magic
/ Graphic symbol
/ Neopaganism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
Tarot
B couture B Fashion B Aesthetics B Contemporary Paganism |
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| Summary: | The iconography and visuals associated with magic are highly evocative and responsible for a major part of its appeal. The strong, often iconoclastic imagery exerts a particularly powerful draw for the artist or craftsperson because of its ability to fire the imagination, and to inspire creative work in response. Until recent times, creative interpretations of magic within mainstream fashion have mainly been on a subtle and subversive level; generally within a counter cultural context. So why is magical symbolism being appropriated within high fashion at this particular point in time? |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1735 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The pomegranate
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/pome.41521 |