Garment cover fantasy : A contemplation on garment code

• Main Authors: Kuo-Yun Ma, 馬國芸
• Other Authors: Ta-Lih Shieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36828926479257885178

碩士 === 實踐大學 === 時尚與媒體設計研究所 === 94 === This study is focused on “off the shelf” dust cover as our experiment object. While maintaining its original function, we tested the possibility of designing it as another garment to wear. In the fashion design industry, dust covers are considered only as accessories. With their sole purpose to protect other clothes, they are assembled from two parallel materials. And without a glamorous expression they hang quietly in the closet as if they were just shadows in the dark. Due to this shadowy-like character, and how shadows morph differently due to the angle of light source, I try to redesign a monotonous dust cover into a more dynamic expression. This thesis searches on topics related to variations of “fixed formation” through different perspectives from arts, paintings, architectures and fashion to guide a series of experiments on dust covers: adapting Oriental clothing’s plane cut style to dissect the dust cover from a 2-D point of view into a 3-D framework; injecting Da Vinci’s viewpoints of the human body paintings into the design of dust cover; dissecting and reconstructing the dust cover based on deconstructionism into a new pattern; and to model from architect Vitruvius, combining the golden proportion into dust cover design to present a harmonic sense of beauty. In a world with everything well defined, and with day after day routines, new ideas could be inspired and breathed back to the daily objects we encounter, releasing them from the logic we are familiar to, into the imaginations that we have, bringing new life to the world that we are used to.