Rei Kawakubo의 디자인에 내재된 일본의 미의식에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study aims to examine the background to the rise of Rei Kawakubo, a Japanesedesigner who achieved fame by suggesting the concept of deconstruction andrecombination of clothes, and to look at environment of the time, the formativecharacteristics of her design and the Japanese aesthetic sense inherent in her design. As the method of research, collections that Kawakubo unveiled over the past 10 yearsstarting in 2004 were examined, and a survey of the literature was conducted to describethe background of her growth and the Japanese aesthetic sense inherent in the design. According to the study, Kawakubo grew up in the ruins of a war, and went through atime of great tumult, when Western culture was mixing with Japan’s traditional culture. Shetaught herself a method of creation involving the deconstruction of clothes, and theirrecombination. For this reason, her design from the beginning was inevitably focused ondeconstructing clothes before they could be recombined. Through analyses of hercollections, it was found that the formative characteristics of her design were characterizedby asymmetry, incompleteness, humor and hybridity. Kawakubo created clothes under the influence of an ethnicity that was shrouded inindividuality and a traditional aesthetic sense, and the formative characteristics of herdesign defined by asymmetry, incompleteness, humor and hybridity were closely related tothe hybridity represented by Wabi (わび), Yugen (幽玄), Okashi (をかし) and Zakyo (雜居).