The Research Journal of the Costume Culture (복식문화연구)
- Volume 5 Issue 3
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- Pages.77-95
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- 1997
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- 1226-0401(pISSN)
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- 2383-6334(eISSN)
A Study on the Graffiti Techniques in the Contemporary Dress
현대복식에 나타난 그라피티(Graffiti) 기법에 관한 연구
Abstract
The purpose of this is to investigate the relation between Graffiti techniques and the contemporary dress. Graffiti is the internal expression of human potential desires which is composed of informative signs. As Graffiti have become the cross-cultural condition under the Hiphop culture, it makes the meaningless space into the characteristic space, and proposes the identities of graffiti ‘writes’. In the contemporary dress, Graffiti look has become means of communication and playfulness. Through the external forms like icon, index, and symbol, graffiti look expresses individual, social, and political identities, and aesthetic values of satirement and playfulness. It would be define graffiti look as postmodern characteristics, as it wee, which has collapsed between the mainstream, and anti-mainstream, and it contributes to spread streetstyle to catwalk.
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