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

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 44 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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0:42.3	With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day, we all get dressed.
0:45.3	Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast that explores the who-what win of why we wear.
0:51.2	We are friends, fashion historians, and your host, Cassie Zachary and April
0:56.0	Callahan. Welcome back, dress listeners, to part two of our two-part episode on the genre-defying
1:03.7	artist Lee Bowery, who our guest today has described as, quote, a fashion designer, club monster,
1:10.7	professional dandy, vaudeville drunkard,
1:13.4	pop surrealist, human sculpture, guru without a sect, clown without a circus, piece of moving furniture,
1:20.0	modern art on legs, and a monument of our times. Wow. So Tate Modern Curator Fitten Moran is going to join us again to discuss the museum's exhibition
1:31.9	Lee Bowery exclamation point, which is on view now and runs through August 31st, 2025.
1:38.2	In part one of this episode, Fittin and April discussed Bowery's childhood growing up in Australia
1:43.4	and subsequent explosion onto the London contemporary art and club scene in the early 1980s.
1:49.8	Described as artist and art object, a thing to see to experience.
1:54.0	Dress was Bowery's main medium of expression.
1:56.6	And April, I think that like me, many of our listeners will be very surprised to learn that
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