Atopos CvC presents NOT A TOY.Fashioning Radical Characters book, by PICTOPLASMA PUBLISHING, Berlin which will be launched in May 2011. It is the first international edition that deals with Radical Characters phenomenon in fashion and clothing. 90 established and upcoming designers among which Maison Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake, John Galliano, Charlie Le Mindu, Gareth Pugh, Commes de Garcons,Alexis Themistocleous create playful and grotesque garments, avant-garde costumes and hairstyles, redifining the human body and putting the pioneer characters on and off the catwalk. Through the texts of the reknown researchers and academics Valerie Steele, Ginger Gregg Duggan&Judith Hoos Fox, Jose Teunissen, Fransesca Granata and Ted Polhemus, NOT A TOY approaches also theoretically this new pop phenomenon.
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