What is avant-garde fashion? Why do you think many celebrities dress in avant-garde fashions" What celebrity behaviors support your thinking?

 Avant garde fashion is unconventional, experimental, and unorthodox fashion that is characterized by its aesthetic innovation and unacceptability. Avant garde is not limited to fashion and extends to film, music, theater, performance, literature, art, and more. It refers to artist who go against the mainstreams current aesthetics and perception of the norm. The theory behind avant garde is that it arose in society in order to defend aesthetics standards from the decline of taste and style in consumer society. Celebrities wear avant garde fashions in order to be innovative and stand out. Celebrity behaviors that reference avant garde is when Lady Gaga showed up to the red carpet inside of a vessel, or when Alexander McQueen exhibited his runway shows.    

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