The Applications of Visual Components belonging to Minimalism to Feminine Fashion Design

• Main Authors: Ying-Chun Liao, 廖英君
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79779477215447206918

碩士 === 中原大學 === 商業設計研究所 === 97 === This study aims at a specific art style—Minimalism—and its visual components applying to feminine fashion design. The objectives include 1) through understanding the thinking and the essence of Minimalism, summarizing the relevant components comprising the Minimalism costumes, 2) exploring the evolution of overall trends and seasonal trends for the Minimalism costume in the period of 2000~2008, and 3) understanding the cause of those trends influenced by the relevant factors that comprise Minimalism costume, as well as the interrelation among those factors. First of all, reviewing references from 1960 to 1999 helps understand the backgrounds and the thinking of Minimalism, as well as the principles and the appearances of costume esthetics. It also helps search out the relevant basic factors that comprise the Minimalism costume. Accordingly, those factors are selected to be substituted in quantification analysis. The procedure of content analysis includes 5 tasks: 1) Ascertaining study issues—aiming at the period of 2000~2008 Minimalism costume data collections, classifications, and analysis, 2) Representative data—sampling works in terms of a specified national magazine, Phoebes, which is a professional magazine regarding the international community of feminine fashion design, 3) Establishing classes—literature review giving out the relevant factors that comprise the Minimalism costume, 4) Encoding contents—encoding the samples that are screened out from Phoebes in terms of the best global brands, which are reported by Interbrand, and 5) Result analysis—based on the principle of ‘And Operator’ from Fuzzy Logic, developing a quantification model to estimate the degree of Minimalism appearing on costumes in terms of the relevant factors given by task 3, as well as analyzing the results. After applying the 5-step content analysis procedure to 2416 samples, the analysis of results is investigated with respect to 3 themes, from all samples in the period of 2000~2008, 1) the analysis of overall trends 2) the analysis of seasonal trends, and 3) the analysis of the degree of Minimalism conformation in terms of independent factors. All of results are schematically analyzed. In consequence, concluding remarks are—1) Samples that totally conforms Minimalism style are approximately 20% for both overall and seasonal trends; 2) Overall trends are principally influenced by spring-summer seasonal trends in that vicissitudes of overall trends correspond to those of spring-summer seasonal trends much closely than those of autumn-winter seasonal trends; 3) 2005 is the year in which the mainstream is the most unconformable to Minimalism costume, whereas 2000, 2002 and 2006 are the years in which the mainstream is much conformable to Minimalism costume; and 4) Fashion designers hardly overall impress an unique thinking philosophy on a single composition, whereas essential appearances are usually partially spotted. Still they emphasize clear-cut lines, visual comfort, and the usage of empty appearance, while merely productions are composited by fully filling all the spaces. Color, texture, and pattern are the major factors whose interrelationships are most inter-dependent.