A Study on the Zen Aesthetics in the Japanese Contemporary Costume - Focused on the designs of Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake from 1980's -

현대 일본복식에 나타난 선미학적 경향에 관한 연구 -1980년대 이후 Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake의 작품을 중심으로 -

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the zen aesthetic tendencies of Japanese contemporary costume, especially designs of Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake. Zen is one of the Buddism, which is originated in India, and is the religion and philosophy for salvation. There are many resemblances between Zen and postmodernism. Zen has influenced on the 'non-ornamental' culture in japan, and attaches importance to poverty, moderation as the essentials of the son aesthetics, as it were WabiSabi aesthetics is connected with the art of Tea. In this paper, it was classified zen aesthetics with the beauty of non-dualism, the beauty of poverty, the beauty of purity, the beauty of emptiness and the beauty of deepness, and then applied aesthetic categoties to the costume designs of the Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake.