현대 에스닉 패션(Ethnic Fashion)의 특성 분석

Abstract

Reason for contemporary ethnic-look's remarkable world popularity is viewed as due to counteraction of dis-ordered world conditions such as war, teror, and economic depression. These conditions led people to desire the return-influences of post-modernism, eastern and western culture hybrid, and ecology. This study will mainly focus on the anal-ysis of present ethnic fashion trend and, with following to this, their images will be analyzed and categorized. The resultof ethnic trend, especially that of Asian’s and African’s, from 20 to 205 is like this: representative Asian ethnic fashiontendency is focusing on Japanese and Chinese. In Japanese style, oversized silhouette was derived by Kimono and widebelt was appeared by influence of Kimono's Obi. Chinese ethic style are analyzed as adapting feministic silhouette anddetails from Chinese traditional clothes, Chipao. Additionally, in some of the Chinese ethnic-look, there are mixtures withJapanese, North American, and African's images. Mixing with pop images and ancient ones are also emerged. In the Afri-can ethnic look, people used colorful cloth and new materials which is considered as integration of primitives and moderncountry's image to the other, mixture with new technology, and acceptance to the multi-national folk fashion. These trendsare widely revealed and extended in the world fashion. In the following result of the analysis, there were four outstandingimages lying underneath in the present ethnic-look. That is eclectic, traditional, natural, and mysterious images.