Edition : First / New York / Bernadette Corporation / 1999 / Softcover. / VG+
8vo, 128pp. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Text in English. A little creasing to spine with one small closed year to cover.
From 1999 to 2001, New York-based collaborative project Bernadette Corporation produced Made In USA, a magazine that combined fashion, art, music, and critique as an experimental publication. For three issues, Made In USA mapped out the cultural terrain for a generation of artists living in New York at a time when reactionary politics and the phenomenon of globalization reached a tipping point. Fouded in a nightclub in 1994, Bernadette Corp existed as a club collective, and then a fashion label before publishing the only 3 issues of Made in USA. Seeing fashion as a seductive surface and a potent platform for disruptive ideas BC negate traditional fashion imagery and place it alongside theoretical texts, echoing the concerns and practices of the european avant garde, though in Made in USA many of these ideas seem to have been pushed to their logical conclusion. The first issue includes contributions from Susan Cianciolo, Dike Blair, Rita Ackermann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Actress and Marcelo Krasilcic.
