Fashion-forward killer: Villanelle, costuming and queer style in<i>Killing Eve</i>
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Costuming within the BBC television drama series Killing Eve (2018–) functions as a spectacular dressing-up box to support representation of Villanelle (Jodie Comer) glamorous globe-trotting assassin. This article will argue that Villanelle’s fashion-forward wardrobe offers multifarious contemporary queer styling. Her costuming is characterized by gender fluidity and play with dominant codes signifiers lesbian style identity. looks move beyond stereotyped constraints butch-femme binary construct polymorphous femininity broad cross-over appeal. In offering striking silhouette draws attention away from material body onto costuming, highlights gendered sexual identities. may appear reduce surface appearances, yet these iterations result in significant on mainstream television.
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عنوان ژورنال: Film, fashion & consumption
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2044-2831', '2044-2823']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00030_1