The growth of information communication technology has evolved the 21st century into a digital-oriented era. Digital is a social, cultural phenomenon that features the lifestyle of human beings. This phenomenon occurs anywhere, anytime based on hypert...
The growth of information communication technology has evolved the 21st century into a digital-oriented era. Digital is a social, cultural phenomenon that features the lifestyle of human beings. This phenomenon occurs anywhere, anytime based on hypertexts. In this study, the correlation of fashion with hypertexts that reflect the characteristics of modern culture where the boundary between time and space has become vague and a variety of styles are mixed were analyzed. Also, the types of external forms and the aesthetic characteristics of design were researched by analyzing fashion in the 21st century.
This study is summarized as follows:
First, the technical and philosophical aspects of hypertexts were theoretically researched in order to understand hypertexts. In addition, the characteristics of hypertexts were analyzed by reviewing the theories of the previous researchers for hypertexts. From a technical point of view, hypertexts denote underlined texts in blue, which can be seen commonly from web documents. They allow the users to move to another website through nodes and links. From a philosophical point of view, hypertexts cover the diverse meanings of texts. In addition, the range of hypertexts is expanded, and they mean the opening, expansion, or reproduction of texts.
As a result of this research, the characteristics of hypertexts turned out to be nonlinearity, borderlessness, interactivity, multimediality, and decentring based on the concepts created by P. Levi, G. Landow, and R. Fowler.
Secondly, the characteristics of hypertexts were categorized and the formativeness of each hypertext was analyzed in order to research the correlation of hypertexts with fashion.
Nonlinearity has non-sequential and unpredictable features, and does not have a definite path. In fashion, nonlinearity was shown in the misrepresentation of human bodies due to irregular pleats and overlapping as well as a bulky feel and the expansion of spaces for clothes. In addition, variable changes were pursued by emphasis and transformation, which are opposing concepts to proportion.
Borderlessness has a structure without boundaries due to the links of hypertexts. In fashion, borderlessness had a modular structure. It also had an open structure through twist and origami as well as the overlapping and transparency of materials, and showed continuity with dynamic movements.
Interactivity denotes the interaction of stimulations and responses, which occur as information flows bi-directionally. In fashion, interactivity was shown in the form of designs that are transformed by the participation of those who wear clothes due to visual effects from the movements of the human body and clothes and technology development.
Multimediality is an attribute that occurs by connecting diverse types of files to nodes. It gets to have intermediality, and is related to the concept of intertextuality. In fashion, multimediality was shown in the form of hybrid fashion. It tears down the boundary between fashion and other fields and ensures interaction between fashion and other fields to create new types of fashion.
Decentering enables the interest of readers to form or move a center and to perform re-centering. In fashion, decentering expresses the dissolution of perpendicularity and horizontality, avant-garde, which is a combination of exotic elements, and disorderly ugliness as beauty.
Thirdly, the aesthetic characteristics of fashion were researched based on the aforementioned structural characteristics of hypertexts and the correlation of hypertexts with fashion.
Spatial beauty turned out to represent multi-layered spaces by extending clothes through exaggerated silhouettes and giving a three-dimensional feature to the surface of two-dimensional clothes.
Dynamic beauty offers continuous movements through continuity ensured by the vague boundary. Asymmetric style was created based on the possibilities of changes and the expansion of forms. Voluptuous beauty provides clothes with transparency. The beauty of curves was emphasized by using designs that stood out body lines or a specific part of a body as well as elastic or transparent materials.
Functional beauty turned out to be able to be transformed into a variety of forms and functions by the participation of those who wore clothes or external influence. In fashion, mobility, portability, and protective functionality are emphasized and expressed.
Eclectic beauty has a combination of diverse styles; thus, boundaries were dissolved. Styles were mixed to create new styles. Diversity and identity were expressed.
Grotesque beauty expressed disharmony through dissolution, transformation, distortion, and exaggeration. It was represented through unfamiliar materials, the transformation and distortion of design, the destruction of forms, and disharmony.
In this study, the characteristics of hypertexts and the correlation of fashion with hypertexts were researched to enable an increase in the fields applicable to fashion and having an open mind. These research results are expected to make new aesthetic approach and to propose a wider point of view.