Fashion Deconstruction
ファッションの脱構築 / 1980s– / Style / Fashion History
Exposes seam allowance, lining, raw edge, pattern and asymmetric joining instead of hiding clothing as a seamless whole. It does not merely destroy; it dismantles conventions and builds a different body from their parts.
Seam allowances and lining turned outward / Raw edges and deliberate fraying / Asymmetric joins and displaced balance / Patterns and interfacing treated as finished surfaces
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Collections where garment structure and making are the subject · Clothes and displays that value assembly and repair traces over polished finish
- Type
- Leave labels, basting thread and pattern notation visible as part of the structure.
- Composition
- Break symmetry so joins and excess cloth draw another contour around the body.
- Material
- Expose lining, interfacing, seams and cut edges so the order of assembly can be read.
- Caution
- Torn and frayed cloth alone is not deconstruction. The viewer must see what convention was dismantled and what replaced it.
- Further study
- Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons / Martin Margiela / Exposure and reconstruction of structure
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