From parading techniques to body leaks

Abstract

This article intends to approach the bodies of fashion shows, from the understanding of the body as an expressive sensorimotor force, which allows us to consider, in the midst of the visible uniformity of performances on the catwalks, the existence of nuances of the compositional specificities of such apparitions. Thus, we will present the notion of body leaks, defended in the thesis Metaphor of the hanger: body and apparition in the fashion shows (LEAHY, 2018), especially from the notions of body techniques, by the sociologist and anthropologist Marcel Mauss (2003), and of body schema, by the phenomenologist philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1999). After situating the ways in which the dressed bodies performed their performances in the parades until the contemporary ways, we deal with the issue of body techniques used specifically in the activity of bodies on the catwalks, which can be understood as parading techniques. From brief examples of fashion shows from São Paulo Fashion Week 42 (SPFW42) in 2016, analyzed in the thesis, we
will perceive and discuss the leaks operated and expressed by these bodies, recognizing them as elaborated in a culture, brokered as sensitive and moving force.