The Emperor’s New Fashion: Merleau-Ponty’s Skein-scape and Le Corbusier’s House of Haute Couture

Panel: 
Critical Theory
Abstract: 

This paper discusses 1) to what extent is charisma nothing but chiasmic? 2) does modernist transparent architecture lay bare a kind of “nakedness” that veils/unveils a mysterious femininity? I resort to Le Corbusier’s use of glass, and further, I argue that fashion has constituted a kind of skein-scape.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Yen-Chen
Last Name: 
Chuang
Institution: 
Tamkang University