A Study on Character Fashion - The Focus on Animation Character -

캐릭터 패션에 관(關)한 연구(硏究) - 애니메이션 캐릭터를 중심(中心)으로 -

  • Lee, Jung-Im (Dept. of Clothing Science, Seoul Women's University) ;
  • Chun, Hae-Jung (Dept. of Clothing Science, Seoul Women's University)
  • 이정임 (서울여자대학교 대학원 의류학과) ;
  • 전혜정 (서울여자대학교 의류학과)
  • Published : 2001.02.28

Abstract

Character fashion was already turned up in Egyptian age and nowadays was worn to everybody as regardless of ages, level and sex of people. This paper reviewed character fashion and animation character based on USA and Japan that is outstanding more coming up today and compared and analyzed with our country's situation. Usually, character fashion would give imagnation of products and companies themselves for aesthetic sense and can show possessive feeling and personality. And that mean fashion used by character like pictures and signals(that include words figures and special signals) and these fashion using by animation character was come out in 1929. In spite of third producer, Korea, back from USA and Japan about character fashion, we faced many problems. In order to solve these problems, we must make our own pure character that do not need to pay royalty and must spread marketing strategy with character fashion of more various designs. Therefore we should concentrate for raising high quality works and avoid uneconomic investment and plagiarism and finally we must expand recognition concerning character fashion.

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