Designing intercultural dress in multicultural times
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The intent of this thesis reflects my own artistic work within the expressive modes of
fashion and costume design, through which I have been drawing a conceptual and
aesthetic parallelism with the couture work of French fashion creator Paul Poiret (Paris:
l 879-1944). It is also my intention to demonstrate, by my own designs, the
anthropological possibility for a cross-cultural dimension to both experience and the
transference of influences in a sarto1ial material culture.
Sartorial hybridism can be comprehended in broad social and cultural phenomena like
theatre, haute-couture, and fashion. It can also be specifically incorporated in a particular
interdisciplinary creative process of work, and develop an oiiginal idea of intercultural
patterns of dress. The creative intercultural dress project evolves from an artistic notion
that grasps multiple material culture realities in a wide pool of aesthetic options. It
develops a creative feed-back from surveying, reading, and interpreting classic and
contemporary forms of dress hybridism in costume history.
As anthropologist and dress creator, visualizing the impact of cultures on and through
historic, traditional, and modem costumes has supported my belief that cross-cultural
dress is a syncretic form of art, representing a creative reinterpretation of heterogeneous
worldwide cultural material, imaginatively resulting in the formation of conceptually new
fashionable configurations of clothing.
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