Leigh Bowery: Phantasmagoric Couturier, an interview with Fiontán Moran, Part I

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this week's two-part episode, we explore the work of the "phantasmagoric couturier" Leigh Bowery, who has been described as "artist and art object, a thing to see, to experience." Primarily using dress and his own body as his medium of expression, Bowery's work was equally at home in contemporary art institutions and in the London club scene during the 1980s and 1990s. Tate Modern curator Fiontán Moran joins us this week to speak about the exhibition Leigh Bowery! which is on view now at the Tate through August 31, 2025. Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion? Our ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠classes⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠bookshelf⁠⁠ with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Dressed is a part of the ⁠⁠AirWave Media⁠⁠ network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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