Editing Postmodernism (section)

=== Fashion ===
[[File:Dresses by Rei Kawakubo - Sarah Stierch 03.jpg|alt=Dresses by Rei Kawakubo (1997)|thumb|205x205px|Padded dresses by Rei Kawakubo (1997)]]
One manifestation of postmodernism in fashion explored alternatives to conventional concepts of elegance: [[Rei Kawakubo]]’s Spring/Summer 1997 collection featured "dresses asymmetrically padded with goose down, creating bumps in unexpected areas of the body". [[Issey Miyake]]'s 1985 [[dreadlocks]] hat "offered an immediate, yet impermanent, '[[Multiculturalism|multi-culti]]' fashion experience". [[Vivienne Westwood]] took "an extremely polyglot approach", from early work with copies of 1950s clothes, to exploration of historic modes and cultural influences. In 1981, her first runway show, "Pirate", merged British history, 18th- and 19th-century dress, and African textile design, with a rap and ethnic music soundtrack.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Deihl |first=Nancy |date=Jul 2, 2009 |title=Post-modernism in fashion |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/display/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7002082725 |access-date=Oct 14, 2024 |website=[[Grove Art Online]] |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t2082725|isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 }}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last1=Deihl |first1=Nancy |date=2009 |title=Westwood [née Swire], Vivienne |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/display/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7002081175 |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Grove Art Online |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t2081175 |isbn=978-1-884446-05-4}}</ref>

The postmodern fashion sensibility appeared also through the subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s. [[Hippie]]s, [[Punk subculture|punks]] and other countercultural groups constructed their own nonconformist identities through choices in music, drugs, slang, and appearance. As these styles gained mainstream popularity, critics claim they lost their deeper meaning: "the adoption of surface attributes offers the frisson of rebellion without a commitment to a subcultural lifestyle."<ref name=":6" />