A Study on the Generation and Characteristic of New Fashion Found in Changes in Revolutionary Fashion - Focused on the New Look of Christian Dior -

혁명적 변화에 나타난 NEW FASHION의 발생 및 특징에 관한 연구 - CHRISTIAN DIOR의 THE NEW LOOK을 중심으로 -

  • 곽태기 (세종대학교 생활과학부)
  • Published : 2001.01.01

Abstract

Particular historic events such as revolution and wars have given rise to fashion. Luxurious costume representative of the aristocratic culture since the French Revolution was changed into popular look with the collapse of the royal regime. With the restoration of the royal regime by Napoleon, rapid changes associated with the reemergence of the costume of aristocratic brought an opportunity for the revolutionary fashion of bringing about new fashion in the fashion field. Especially, the New Look Presented by Christian Dior in 1947 shortly after the Second World War would be the typical style of revolutionary fashion. Accordingly, this study attempted to analyse the characteristics of new fashion regarding how new fashion occurred and developed in changes in revolutionary fashion after the Revolution and the War, in conjunction with the zeitgeist(time split) of rapid social changes. The ultimate purpose of this study was find out the significance of fashion as to how and why fashion changed in relation to the factors of changes in fashion in the history and create new future fashion by reinterpreting new aesthetic consciousness about the characteristic of new fashion found in changes in revolutionary fashion.

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