Dressing, Undressing, and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa's  El buen patrón (2021)

Jacky Collins; Sarah Gilligan

doi:10.1080/24741604.2025.2504258

Dressing, Undressing, and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa's El buen patrón (2021)

Jacky Collins, Sarah Gilligan^*

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School of Design Arts and Creative Industries

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Abstract

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawing from film, fashion and cultural studies, this article examines the intersectional representation of the gendered dynamics of power, status and authority in Fernando León de Aranoa’s 2021 Goya award-winning corporate satire El buen patrón. Through the close visual analysis of the costuming by designer Fernando García, we argue that dressing, undressing and redressing function to visualize the ways that the illusionary stability of patriarchal power is constructed, destabilized and reconfigured in the shifting social contexts of contemporary post-Franco Spanish culture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	455-486
Number of pages	32
Journal	Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
Volume	9
Issue number	2
Early online date	11 Jul 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2025.2504258
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2025

Keywords

costume
costume analysis
Costume Design
masculinities
fashion
Javier Bardem
spain
Stardom
celebrity
cinema
film
gender
identities
menswear
mise-en-scene
Patriarchy/patriarchalism
Fernando León de Aranoa
El buen patron
Menswear
Masculinities
Fernando García
Twenty-first century Spanish Cinema
Costume

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Dressing, Undressing, and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa's El buen patrón (2021)

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Book review: Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals, edited by Vicki Karaminas, Adam Geczy, and Pamela Church Gibson (2022)

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