Constructing gestures: Capturing scenarios of the body response to emotion
2020 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
Constructing gestures shows widespread potential for application within the fashion industry, allowing the body through self-expressive gestures to play a substantial part in the role of developing forms. By inviting the body and mind into the process of making, garment construction is derived directly from the human body. The capturing of gestures represents a deepen understanding of body language and its visual strength of communicating. The garments react and counteract with the body while wearing through going in and out of the position it is constructed in. This results in a dynamic expression where emotion, environment, and the clothing identities are all linked. In this frozen moment, dress adapts to the bodily expression and the space it’s in. Nevertheless, it translates archetypical garment identities through the body, which becomes the reference of shape and light to become the reference of colour. Surface manipulation and colouration are used to enhance the constructed garments in terms of shape and to highlight shadows and light reflected onto the wearer. It communicates the mood and story behind the work, which signals to the stresses of business attire and the leisure of the individual. If garments can improve the relationship to the body, to the places we go, can we better own, sustain, individualize, communicate, and experience wearing?
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020.
Keywords [en]
womenswear, garment construction, body language, gestures, positions, capture moment, frozen movement, bodily expression, self-expression, communication, emotion, vulnerability, individuality, business attire, etiquette, formality/informality, restriction, release
National Category
Design
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23663OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-23663DiVA, id: diva2:1455078
2020-07-292020-07-222020-07-29Bibliographically approved