Nowadays, when on a daily basis the fashion of clothing is used to shape one’s identity and to determine one’s social status, the language of fashion and clothing is becoming an increasingly efficient medium through which powerful artistic, sociological and ideological messages can be transferred. On the one hand the fashion of clothing demands its artistic recognition; on the other hand the language of fashion and clothing is more frequently used in contemporary visual art. The study of the phenomenon of continuous use of clothing and the language of fashion in the works of visual art is seen as the ever more intense presence in contemporary times. This work is a complete historical review of the use of fashion and anti-fashion garments and also the language of fashion of clothing in the works of visual art from the beginning of the 20th century to contemporary art. Although this phenomenon has become more common, so far there have not been any systematized reviews of how the garment sign has been used in artworks.
In the work, we can observe how the fashion system elements such as catwalk, fashion show, fashion magazine and clothing items are increasingly used in contemporary art. Particular attention is dedicated to the phenomenon of sculptural clothing, a sculpture as a garment without a body (empty dress). The focus is also put onto the role of clothing as a ready-made, such as the one in the avant-garde artistic movements at the beginning of the 20th century, which is replaced by the sample shaping principle in the post-production artwork.
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