This study aims to systematically analyze red carpet style which is the fashion exhibition of stars and reflects the fashion trends of that time. For this, reference study and case study were conducted. First, formation and meaning of red carpet and t...
This study aims to systematically analyze red carpet style which is the fashion exhibition of stars and reflects the fashion trends of that time. For this, reference study and case study were conducted. First, formation and meaning of red carpet and the historic flow of red carpet style were studied in reference. After that, red carpet fashion style cases symbolizing international prestige were researched by subdividing the cases. This study conducted comparative analysis focusing on two representative award ceremony styles after the 2000s by subdividing into formative elements of silhouette, color, fabric, detail, accessory, fashion image, and etc.
As a moving fashion spot, red carpet fashion style can see the whole silhouette of star's apparel to partial details. Firstly for silhouette, the mermaid silhouette is occupying the highest percentage in the Academy awards. Compared to this, fit silhouette showed almost the same percentage as the mermaid silhouette in the Grammy Awards. Secondly for color, black color occupied the highest percentage and high-bright beige and peach color was next. Compared to the Academy Awards, various colors are evenly shown in similar percentage in the Grammy Awards. Thirdly in fabric, silky material was shown most often. This seems to result from the highest percentage of dresses in award ceremony apparel items. Meanwhile in the Grammy Awards, silky and metallic material similarly appear often. There were more various types of fabric in the Grammy Awards. Fourth in detail, frill and ruffle ornaments were shown most often both in the Academy and Grammy Awards. Especially in the Grammy Awards, beads ornaments were being used most often. Also considering that metallic material was appearing more often compared to the Academy Awards, it is thought that more fancy and glorious style is preferred in the Grammy Awards fashion. Fifth in accessory, accessories giving performance effect of unique style were shown often in the Grammy Awards compared to the Academy awards in which graceful and elegant accessories were shown often. Sixth for fashion image, elegant image of goddess style was shown most often as the fashion image of the Academy Awards. There were many romantic images in the Grammy Awards, but overall several images where shown in similar percentages and more experimental, lascivious styles were variously appearing.
As various mass media has developed, red carpet fashion style of award ceremonies is receiving more interest that it has become an issue by the media voluntarily selecting best dressers. On this, stars attending award ceremonies are showing more classy red carpet fashion style every year as a stage of image public relation. There has been several pictorials and fashion news about red carpet style until now, but there is a big lack of precedent studies. Especially, this study has meaning at the fact that there almost hasn't been any research handling movie award ceremony apparel or album award ceremony apparel. It is expected for more analytic follow-up studies on red carpet style to be progressed.