Surrealism appears to comfort a inner fear and a sense of futility of human after the World War and, it intends to the world of dream and unconsciousness as hideout of real world, also it was active in the sphere of fashion. Spirit and fashion of surr...
Surrealism appears to comfort a inner fear and a sense of futility of human after the World War and, it intends to the world of dream and unconsciousness as hideout of real world, also it was active in the sphere of fashion. Spirit and fashion of surrealism is well known whole over the 21st century and it is emerging as important trend in present fashion world.
So this thesis studies about a meanings of surrealism and surrealistic fashion as a mental liberated area of the moderners in the hard world.
The kind of surrealistic Expression techniques is automatism and depaysement as deviation to unconsciousness world and it is expressed as transposition, distortion, an optical illusion in fashion.
Surrealistic fashion is advanced in 21st century, it is due to development of digital technology and expansion of designers' imagination And also surrealistic fashion achieves eminence in fashion styling as showing fashion containing presentation of situation and space overcoming formative limits of human. Expression techniques can be classified like below. Transposition divides into inside and outside. Distortion divides into reappearance and non-reappearance of the structure of the human body. An optical illusion divides into by a drawing technique of two dimensions, by the feel of a material and texture.
Surrealistic expression techniques have common characteristic of contradiction and deviation through combination reality with fake, expression of distorting the real world, change the essence and position of an object. Contradiction and deviation provide paradoxical pleasant sensation through strange sense from a familiar things. paradoxical pleasant sensation goes with inside meaning of dualism, symbolism, a fantasy. Dualism coexists two heterogeneous elements, symbolism have new essence, A fantasy appears from strange and unfamiliar expression.
In our tough and disorderly modern society, people want to be comforted on the inside by something from beyond reality and this goes along the same line with characteristics of surrealism. The development of digital technology, infinite imagination and accommodation of general public add greatly to our desire towards virtual reality. They influence broadly in various fields of our today’s society, especially in fashion with exploration of the human body and substance of human nature. Through surrealism emerging in 21st century fashion styling, we can explore the human nature and be provided with spiritual consolation and satisfaction by returning to the essence of the world. In addition to that, we can also satisfy our needs about creative activity and artistic inspiration.