This study aims to draw cultural and industrial meanings of star fashion as the core of distributing fashion, by investigating star’s fashion contents multi laterally through entertainment focusing on movies, TV dramas, and pop music based on the id...
This study aims to draw cultural and industrial meanings of star fashion as the core of distributing fashion, by investigating star’s fashion contents multi laterally through entertainment focusing on movies, TV dramas, and pop music based on the idea that fashion can be created by public culture in the era of multi-media. Accordingly, the study is to provide useful data for delivering Korea’s fashion culture and activating the fashion industry utilizing entertainment star fashion through Korean Wave created in Northeast Asia in the twenty first century.
The scope of entertainment for this study is limited to movies, TV dramas and pop music as the representative media-related entertainment, and star fashion from the 1920s when a movie was first created to the year of 2005 when new media are enjoying the heyday has been examined. The subjects of the study were fashion stars produced in the fields, especially the stars who were noticed related to fashion and who influenced the public. Also, western stars of Hollywood who were leading the entertainment and culture industry became the focus, in looking at star fashion reaching the world. As the methods of the study, documents and media were investigated. As for documents, domestic and foreign books, journals, and fashion magazines were referred to. As for media data, accessible movies, TV, cable TV, the Internet, DVD, video were examined.
Entertainment is getting important as a requirement to satisfy human’s natural needs, fun and pleasure, for the modern people’s lives, and it has developed as the high value-added and promising cultural industry which will lead the twenty first century. The development of media has brought the improvement of the public culture including movie, TV, pop music in quality and quantity and produced stars as the subjects to lead entertainment.
Star is a social icon representing public needs and making people identify with as the product of the public culture, as well as imply a cultural meaning and is used as an apparatus of industrial marketing. In this regard, the role and vale of stars have been more important, and especially relating to fashion, they are giving big influence on the fashion culture and the industry.
Mass media have developed from the early twenty century until now as a channel to deliver entertainment to the public, and accordingly the genres of entertainment have been diversified and the communication channel with the public has been widen. The relationship between the change of star fashion and public fashion regarding this is presented in <Table-1>.
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As multilateral approaches to star fashion, first, star’s fashion style was examined in the aspect of creating fashion ; second, star fashion and fashion designers were examined in the aspect of creating and styling star fashion ; and star fashion and star marketing were examined in the aspect of fashion business. The results are presented in <Table-2>
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The results about the fashion culture of star fashion and its industrial meaning drawn by integrating the multilateral analyses of entertainment star fashion are presented in <Table-3>.
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Star fashion, which has led the fashion culture and industry since the twenty century, has more close connection with fashion by forming a trinity, entertainment-star-fashion, in the 21st century. The most important meaning above all is that it has enormous influence on public fashion and creates and distributes aesthetic sense.
Although Korea has such a short history of having attention to entertainment, star and star fashion, beginning in the 1980s, Korean Wave created in Northeast Asia shows that how enormous productive power of culture and industry the connection between entertainment and star has. Korean Wave is now prevalent in Northeast Asia in various forms. Therefore, it is high time to reinforce the national brand through Korean Wave. Based on this, Korea’s beautiful fashion culture would be reached the world over Asia. Along with this, Korea’s fashion industry can be expected to boom.