What is fashion? I thought fashion is to creating something new, perhaps it is to create the new material that can be used as a fabric, or perhaps it is to create the new idea about prophecy the future. However, my opinion about fashion has been changed. I realized that fashion is not only about what is the next, but also about what was before. Christopher Breward mentions: “Fashion moves in space and time. It shares it the complexity of physics and mathematics, making patterns and networks, forming mazes and constellations. Thought its forms we have an opportunity to re-unite art and science and to heal to rift of the two culture.”[1]In my opinion, fashion is a circle, each trend come and goes. Some designers study history and culture, and excavate new elements as the inspiration for their collection, another designers study what they have been designed and rebuilt their collection on it. Above all, Fashion does move in space and time, and it connects the past and the future. Therefore, we need study it through time and space. Another idea, that I have had since I took Introduction to Fashion Studies, is study fashion is not only about study the history, culture, material or the form of a garment, but also about study other persons or ourselves. Just like Christopher Breward mentions in the book: “Fashion can be about confirmation, of self and other.”[2] By doing the dress practice logs, I realized my life style and my personality through what kind of garments that I have, and what kind of garments that I usually wear. Also, by looking at other person’s dress, we will be able to get information from it. For example, officer can be recognizes by wearing business suit, student can be recognizes by wearing school uniform. Therefore, study fashion is another to study ourselves.
[1] Heike Jenss, Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practice, section Foreword, (Bloombury Academic, 2016), xviii- xix.
[2] Heike Jenss, Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practice, section Foreword, (Bloombury Academic, 2016), xviii- xix.
Bibliography
Jeness. Heike. Fashion Studies: Research Methods, Sites and Practice, section Foreword. Bloombury Academic. 2016.
