At the beginning of 20C, the world was skeptical about the conventional western ideas. So they began to be concerned about the Asian world that was alicnated from western. It provide a monentum for the change from 'closed world' to 'open world'. With ...
At the beginning of 20C, the world was skeptical about the conventional western ideas. So they began to be concerned about the Asian world that was alicnated from western. It provide a monentum for the change from 'closed world' to 'open world'. With a tendency of the current of the time, Japan advance into the world with their fashion based on their economical development. I studied Rei Kawakubo's work in a category of an esthetic alienation as an open concept. He exerted an influence to world fashion and showed destruction and unfamiliar design.
An esthetic alienation in the fashion dismantle the meaning of existing fashion and show experimental shapes which is broken off convention of western fashion. It is a denying of conventional western ideas and also recognize transpositional and confrontational elements equally so it recognize subjective and relative values; an aestheties alienation involve imperfect, paradoxical and inaccurate beauty as dismantlement of the perfect and accurate things.
There are some characteristics, in esthetic alienation of Kawakubo's works. First, destruction of functions. She dismantle of basic functions of costume and then them with new value.
Second, destruction of shapes. The shape is a most basic element to constitue the clothes. This destruction is the style of experession for deviation in the destruction, the beauty of poverty in the Zen Aesthetics, the beauty of emptiness, and formless in the aesthetics of the ugly. And it convert the existing ideas about 'good'. It express imperfect world through asymmetrical and shapes and forms.
Third, destruction of the material. Using of various materials is based on experimentalism and it is expression style of mutual text, beauty of duskiness and inaccuracy in the aesthetics of the ugly. Heterogeneous characters bring about inharmoniousness and it can be felt a catharsis through beauty of paradox in ugly beauty. And also inner wear is expressed softly by overlapping of costume.
Forth, destruction of time & space. It appeared in combination of the eastern and the western design elements and a reactionary tendency or future oriented design. For example, it is various using of black: black was an the eastern color or it is a reappearance of a medieval silhouette.
Fifth, destruction of arrangement. the destruction of arrangement is the expression for dissolution concept itself of being dressed. It convert the fixed idea about ordering of being clothed and how to be clothed to variety of costume. It is based on subjective beauty rather than the ?? value, to be standardized. Zen in the castern world and the aesthetics of the ugly into her works. and she make good use of alienated design that regard relativity rather than absolutism and subjectivity rather than objectivity. And so she showed beauty of art in the costume and a broad-mindedness for the world.