Bridge 1: What Fashion Means to You

Project description:

In this project, we are creating 4 pieces of work based on our understanding of fashion and beauty. We also did some research and readings about beauty in the context of fashion, we found out that beauty can be any thing or event around us, but it also depends on people’s experiences and personal opinions. Beauty can be something individual, while fashion is something that’s popular. Fashion is a taste of most people in the society in a particular period of time, it is something related with majority.


4 Pieces:

1. Renaissance (14th-16th century): The patterns are very important in this period of time because it is a kind of new technique to show fashion and beauty. It is also important about the long and complex sleeves. The colours used are not so bright, mostly the inside linings are in the colour white.


2. Rococo (18th century): In this period of time, people are using a lot of ribbons and bowknots on clothes, and there are lots of layers of clothing. Most people will put on hats or decorations on head. The colour pink is first found in 18th century, which also symbols “wealth” because it is hard to dye on clothes. Rococo can be called a fashion period mostly for women.


3. Modern (20th century): Fashion started to be something important in this period of time, while there are lots of different types of clothes in the fashion industry. I chose to draw the black dress similar to what Audrey Hepburn once wore in a poster. The colours of clothes actually changed, people are braver to wear clothes in all kinds of colours. It is also interesting to see that people started to have more accessories on simple designed clothes.


4. Future (22th century): I would leave a blank for the future fashion because we are not yet exploring it. I think it would be totally different with what we have right now. As we see from the 3 pieces above, fashion changes real quick and we could not even imagine. There are lots of improvements in skills and thoughts while creating fashion, I think it worths our expectations.


Conclusion:

From my perspective, fashion is also something that records history, it tells us stories about the change in beauty through out time. I decided to use digital paintings to show fashion in 4 periods of time, which is Renaissance, Rococo, Modern and Future. It is interesting to see that they are totally different, no matter the colours used or the elements involved in the clothes. Some parts went complicated while some parts went simplified, they are so different, but both can be defined as a type of “beauty” that’s popular in that period of time. In this situation, beauty in fashion is not something that’s stable, it is changeable, with a wide range of acceptation from time to time. In other words, fashion is a special power that pushes people to improve and to enhance, while beauty is something like a goal for fashion, it can also improve and change the quality of life for people, by reaching the goals of fashion, people are also changing their lifestyles in a good way because fashion is a collection of things that can present culture and identity of a group of people.


Thank you for reading!

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