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The curators of "Fashion and Transgression" lead a walkthrough of the exhibition.
The curators of "Fashion and Transgression" lead a walkthrough of the exhibition, which focuses on representations of fashion in Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1950. Identity, gender, taste, style, glamour, the new woman, spectacle, orientalism, and the body are among the themes revealed in a variety of materials taken from several Los Angeles collections. The exhibition explores tensions between personal and social identity, as well as the tensions between the liberation and regulation of the body. It is through this exploration that "fashion" and "transgression" emerge as complementary forces, continuously appropriating and destabilizing ideals. Further, the woman, or the man dressed as a woman, is shown not only as the creator and object of spectacle, but as a spectator who consciously interprets what is presented as fashion. Finally, the exhibition demonstrates how mass media democratizes fashion, allowing a broad audience to become participants in the process of defining it.
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