Contemporary Fashion Reference

Fall 2020

Ready-to-Wear

On Peter Do

“His fall collection is a tribute to what’s called the final girl. “She’s the one who survives the journey and comes out stronger at the end.” He made no literal nods to those films—his point of view is too well developed for that; instead he was attracted to the aesthetics of power and strength.”

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Film scholar Carol Clover coined the term in her 1987 essay, “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film,” in which she extensively writes about the slasher subgenre of horror and its key parts. She details the characteristics of the “slasher,” the place where each murder happens, the weapons, and the sole survivor, whom she calls the Final Girl. Clover describes the character as such: “She is the one who encounters the mutilated bodies of her friends and perceives the full extent of the preceding horror and of her own peril; who is chased, cornered, wounded; whom we see scream, stagger, fall, rise, and scream again.”

This character is a woman who must go through hell and back, screaming, running, and stabbing her way to survival. She is a virginal figure but must slowly transform into a monster herself to defeat the murderer.”

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