The Fashion Show as a Festival of <em>Gesamtkunstwerk</em>

Leszek Sosnowski

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0563/10570

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Leszek Sosnowski Jagiellonian University in Kraków
He is a professor and (habilitated) doctor conducting scientific and didactic activity at the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University. He is the director of the research project The Electronic Archives of Roman Ingarden, financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Republic of Poland. Founder and editor-in-chief of the philosophical-aesthetic quarterly The Polish Journal of Aesthetics. Co-author of the Dictionary of the Philosophical Concepts of Roman Ingarden (2001). His research interests include phenomenology, analytic philosophy and their relations with modern art.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0563/10570

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Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Show, Festival, Work of Art, Gesamtkunstwerk

Abstract

Fashion affects all areas of individual and social life, transcending mere clothing. Hence it can serve as the subject of technical, historical, artistic, and philosophical reflection. The subject of the present paper encompasses the philosophy and aesthetics of a fashion show – especially several of Karl Lagerfeld’s last projects, which can be treated as total works of art uniting several different artistic fields within their frameworks. The idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art, is applied nowadays to almost every multimedia phenomenon. Such widespread use of this term seems arbitrary; nevertheless, all works related to multimedia pop culture can be called total works of art. This applies to music concerts from the 1960s, such as those of the Beatles, and contemporary theater and music performances, such as those of Lady Gaga.

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