A Study on Modernism and Postmodernism depicted on the 20th Century of Fashion(I) -Focused on Anti-Aesthetics and Open Fashion-

20세기 패션에 나타난 모더니즘과 포스트모더니즘에 대한 연구(I) -반미학(Anti-Aesthetics), 열린 패션(Open-Fashion)을 중심으로-

The purpose of this study is to describe the central argument of postmodern theory ; pro-vide a central concept about postmodernism for fashion ; identify the signficance of open fashion in the 20th century. Postmodern is used to refer to a body of social theory, a style of aesthetic expression, and to various social practics and economic conditions. In this paper, postmodern theory is interpreted as an anti-aesthetics propesed by Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Foster. The key principles and consepts of postmodern the-ory reflect and restate assumptions of nihilism influenced by the works of Nietzsche, being synonymous with the phrase philosophy of difference. The death of art, the end of progress, the will to the sublime, and the principle of pure difference support postmodern ideas, which could be the framework to interprete fashion phenomenon in postmodern condition.