Fold has performed great roles in the formation of clothes design sensation since the dawn of history. Which might be depend on a diversity of fold presentation and a technical development for fold processing. These effects led to induce the culture o...
Fold has performed great roles in the formation of clothes design sensation since the dawn of history. Which might be depend on a diversity of fold presentation and a technical development for fold processing. These effects led to induce the culture of creative ability in fashion design and satisfied with the comsumer who demanded a high value added clothes with commercial value and an artist. Today, it may be an important element not only in textile design which modifies the surface of textile but also in fashion design. As recently new textile materials and advanced processing technology lead people to choose the fold textile more than ordinary textile, textile designer was in the spotlight as a new job. Therefore, the modern fashion shows a tendency of fold including both textile materials and processing technology.
The aim of this study was to investigate the formative characteristic of folds and the method of fold process through literatures and to present some creative clothes proper to a new concept for formative characteristic of folds related with literature survey. For the accomplishment of this study, various fashion photograph album and journals were collected and a concrete work for fashion design was accomplished.
The conclusion is as follows from literature study:
Firstly, a historical diverging point existed in the development of fold process; their matter and period was summarized as the compressing of heavy stone in ancient egypt, the starching of clothes in 16 century, the ironing in 19 century, and the advance of press machine in 20 century.
Secondly, the beginning of pleats was accordion or knife style which was straight. But recent pleats were developed up to the type of naturally flexible waves or irregular form.
Thirdly, there were continuity, movement, duality, bulkiness in the formative characteristic of fold. As the fold lines were connected mutually, fold showed the characteristic of continuous and repetitive formation. Repetition induced the effect of visual direction and emotion. A dual effect of fold was intensified by movement or stop of human body. Its rise and fall expressed an effect of folding and spreading, light and shadow, cubic and volume. Each difference of them was variously shown by its formation change and shadow.
Motives obtained from ammonites and streaming waters were taken as one of a new formative sensation. Dress of two piece and of one piece were respectively made for the their concreteness. With the design work, duplication of another sides was created by the folding and spreading of originally continuous sides produced a new type of images and formativeness. When chiffon lay one upon another in the process of fold, its clearness and opacity was occurred. The contrast effect made by their relations revealed the configuration of pleats better, the cubic effect could be also well expressive of the formativeness of fold.
In summarizing, new approaches on the peculiar fold formation which is able to express aesthetics variously should be continued. Therefore, it was thought that a fashion designer have to develop new materials and process method of fold by using high technology and need to extend the diversity of design expression. Eventually, it will be rich in aesthetic sense of human being and affect on function, feeling, and outside appearance of clothes. This will contribute to manufacture a high-valued clothes.