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...

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Veröffentlicht in:The pomegranate
Nebentitel:Special Issue: Paganism, art, and fashion
1. VerfasserIn: Rodgers, Charlotte (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox Publ. [2020]
In: The pomegranate
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Clothing / Fashion / Magic / Graphic symbol / Neopaganism
IxTheo Notationen:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
AZ Neue Religionen
weitere Schlagwörter:B Tarot
B couture
B Fashion
B Aesthetics
B Contemporary Paganism
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Zusammenfassung: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?
ISSN:1743-1735
Enthält:Enthalten in: The pomegranate
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/pome.41521