"Fresh and original, Mida brings astute intellectual insight into Marcel Duchamp's unexplored sartorial entanglements with dress and clothing . A must read, you will be elated and challenged and then saddened when you realise you have reached the end of this book." -- Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand "A fascinating examination of Duchamp's self-fashioning and attention to the fashioned body throughout his career. Mida makes an important contribution to our understanding of the readymade and to the porous boundaries between fashion and art." -- Justine De Young, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, USA "Thanks to Ingrid E. Mida, we now have an exhaustive overview of [fashion as artistic strategy], many of which have been overlooked by the countless theorists of this ubiquitous modern artist. Mida shows us that despite the crowdedness of the field of 'Duchamp Studies', a fashion book is overdue . Led by appealing photographic evidence, the author takes us on an ambitious journey from Duchamp's own wardrobe to those of his female friends, from gender to industrial manufacturing, adjusting her analytic scope as her objects of study change.

" --Jeppe Ugelvig, Visual Studies "Fascinating and beautifully illustrated . a genuine contribution both to Duchampian studies, but more importantly to the centrality of clothing and fashion to conceptual art practice." -- Costume: The Journal of The Costume Society.