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Alexander McQueen's Plato's Atlantis collection decenters the human subject and disrupts anthropocentric models of subjectivity by envisioning a posthuman, hybridized, and fluid relationship between humans and hydrological systems. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.CONFIRMATORY. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2010 Plato’s Atlantis collection through the lens of posthumanism, new materialism, and Astrida Neimanis’s concept of 'bodies of water.'

August 30, 2026Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty

Posthuman bodies of water in fashion: Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis

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SESamuel Egea-Castañeda

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Critical analysis reveals posthuman hybridity in Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis collection, highlighting fluid ontological boundaries between humans and marine environments.

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To examine Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2010 Plato’s Atlantis collection through the lens of posthumanism, new materialism, and Astrida Neimanis’s concept of 'bodies of water.'
Conducted a theoretical analysis of runway garments, animal-patterned textiles, and prosthetic styling from the Plato's Atlantis collection.
Applied Neimanis's feminist environmental framework to evaluate how fashion articulates connections between the dressed body, bioengineering, and marine ecosystems.
Demonstrated that the collection's human-amphibian hybridization decentres anthropocentric models of subjectivity in response to climate change and rising sea levels.
Showed that fashion functions as a medium to dissolve categorical boundaries between human bodies, technological agents, and planetary hydrological systems.

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Samuel Egea-Castañeda (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a93f1056c1a8fb52e79da2f https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb_00123_1

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August 30, 2026Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty

Posthuman bodies of water in fashion: Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis

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Authors

SESamuel Egea-Castañeda

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Overview

Critical analysis reveals posthuman hybridity in Alexander McQueen’s Plato’s Atlantis collection, highlighting fluid ontological boundaries between humans and marine environments.

Key Points

To examine Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2010 Plato’s Atlantis collection through the lens of posthumanism, new materialism, and Astrida Neimanis’s concept of 'bodies of water.'
Conducted a theoretical analysis of runway garments, animal-patterned textiles, and prosthetic styling from the Plato's Atlantis collection.
Applied Neimanis's feminist environmental framework to evaluate how fashion articulates connections between the dressed body, bioengineering, and marine ecosystems.
Demonstrated that the collection's human-amphibian hybridization decentres anthropocentric models of subjectivity in response to climate change and rising sea levels.
Showed that fashion functions as a medium to dissolve categorical boundaries between human bodies, technological agents, and planetary hydrological systems.

Cite This Study

Samuel Egea-Castañeda (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a93f1056c1a8fb52e79da2f https://doi.org/10.1386/csfb_00123_1

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