Since the beginning of humanity, people have put efforts to make up and dress up themselves using the beautiful and valuable objects in order to express personal taste and image. Jewel has been used as an accessory with economical and artistic value a...
Since the beginning of humanity, people have put efforts to make up and dress up themselves using the beautiful and valuable objects in order to express personal taste and image. Jewel has been used as an accessory with economical and artistic value and continuously developed in order to meet the aesthetic desire of people. Unique gloss and beautiful color of jewel is maximized through cutting method which has been developed for a long time, and the beauty of cutting form itself has the unique beauty.
Thus, this study aims at introducing formativeness of this jewel cutting form to fashion in order to develop unique design with new expressive technique and to fabricate the work.
Basic knowledge is obtained through theoretical study; literature materials including professional publications, papers, and different articles are referred to analyze fashion design cases using jewel cutting form; and fashion collection is analyzed for the ready-to-wear collection from 2005 S/S to 2015 S/S.
6 types of cutting are mainly used including Round, Emerald, Fair, Oval, Marquise, and Heart cuts for fashion design. It is analyzed by silhouette and style to understanding the characteristics of fashion design to which 6 types of jewel cutting are applied. Modern silhouette and block color are mainly used for the fashion design to which a jewel cutting form is used, and jewel decoration and glossy material are used to express fancy and feminine image. And sometimes jewel is directly decorated on the fashion mainly with general jewel setting methods.
Based on the analysis, 4 cutting forms of Round, Emerald, Oval, and Fair were selected and used to fabricate 8 pieces of clothes.
In the work, modern straight silhouette and hour-glass silhouette emphasizing womanly beauty and black, white, and beige colors are used to express calm and elegant image. Jewel cutting form is re-interpreted as a pattern design using laser cutting method. The laser pattern of jewel cutting form engraved on the flat surface of leather material used as the main material is more clearly highlighted, and jewel was fabricated to use jewel directly on the joint for different patterns.
With the study, the followings have been found. Firstly, diversified possibilities for expression have been sought by combining the fashion and jewel as a new express method for the fashion design. Jewel becomes the chain of fashion so the silhouette is changed with it detached, and it can be replaced with different shape one for customized expression in order for different images.
Secondly, it is found that jewel accessory can become an effective element to complete fashion; to express different styles; to change image. It is confirmed that mood can be far different with/without jewel decoration by analyzing the fashion design to which jewel cutting form is applied.
Thirdly, extensive possibility has been suggested that the aesthetic formativeness of jewel cutting form can be combined with the fashion and other areas. By fabricating the pattern of jewel cutting form and jewelry and introducing it to the fashion, the possibility of beauty and design.
This study has been able to the fashion design to give aesthetic formativeness and different functionalities combining the fashion and jewelry through the fashion design using jewel cutting form. It is meaningful by the fact that new direction has been suggested for the expression technique of jewel and jewelry with multiple applications were fabricated and adopted to the fashion. I hope this study will be helpful in creating and developing creative design and different-style fashion designs using the formative aesthetic of jewel cutting form.