패션모델에 나타난 포스트모더니즘적 이미지에 관한 연구 = A Study on the Image of Postmodernism Manifested in Fashion Mode

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This study looked into the fashion trend of postmodernism, and defined and analyzed the postmodernism model image, physical characteristics, and symbolic image through the fashion models that have emerged since 2000. The changes in the image of female fashion model, which manifest themselves in the trends of postmodernism, can be divided into the ideal beauty of extreme realism that presents realistic description, lewd and mystic voluptuous beauty of femme fatal, and the de-ideological dismantling beauty of ugly neuter gender, and furthermore, the model image seen from the standpoint of postmodernism was built on the uncertainty of concept or the conceptualization of the uncertainty. In addition, the excessively ideal or unrealistic elements were emphasized amidst the trends of socio-cultural phenomenon, or the instinctive and sexual aspects were highlighted with the changes in social value. The results of this study showed that those characteristic elements of postmodernism model have shown a clear trends since 2000, unlike the reflection of fashion trends or other artistic and cultural fields, and it could be inferred that such elements could manifest themselves with complex patterns at the same time while they are not strictly distinguished based on each individual model. Thus, the fashion models of contemporary times are not simply the tools that present the apparels and fashion products, but express the ideas and notions of the fashion through formative artistic language, and in that sense, they need to interact with the fashion based on the symbolicity in terms of the role of fashion models. The field, called 'fashion model', will need to take a leading role in the future fashion industry through the sublimation into artistic domain where its images can be expanded sensibly, rather than being confined to the visible vocational domain.