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The Deconstructivist Approach: Understanding of the critical approach

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To better understand the deconstructivist approach that I will be using to understand feminine representation of fashion, the Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo exemplifies how fashion can reify self-styling. By experimenting with the embodiment of post-gender, Kawakubo uses the excess of fabrics to narrow the gab between men and women by turning the attention to the male-centred single narrative of women "weaknesses".  Kawakubo uses the problematic scheme of male dominant discourse and the phallogocentric display of fashion into a kind of post apocalyptic setting (1). The critique of the limited understanding of genders and non-human intersectionality appears to me as a way to delve into an affective and posthuman museum practice. 

Kawakubo's oversized proportions and insights on fashion development highlight a wide array of possibilities in the self-organizing study of curatorial practices in the museums by challenging a humanist ideal of universal women (2). Instead of gendering her clothing, Kawakubo opts for an interdisciplinary approach toward the body. Her design alludes to the deconstructionist notion of complementarity discussed by Jacques Derrida (3). 

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  1. The Beginning of a Journey into self-styling embodied and affective turn Charles Sirisawat-Larouche

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  1. The Deconstructivist Approach: Self-Fashioning Problematization

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  1. Alexander McQueen: Relationality between human and non-human
  2. Deconstructing the Fashion Practices from a Critical Posthuman Perspective
  3. The Deconstructivist approach: Self-Styling vs Self-Fashion
  4. Rei Kawakubo Framework: Source

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