ANALYSIS OF TRANSFER AND APPLICATION OF THE CONCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HISTORICAL COSTUME FROM THE XIX CENTURY IN THE PRACTICE OF THE FASHION DESIGNERS OF WOMEN'S FASHION IN THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY – YEAR 2004 (FALL-WINTER COLLECTIONS)

Abstract

Like any phenomenon and objectified human activity, the implication of the historical costume of the
19th century in the fashion of the new century is not accidental, but has its roots and protoforms. That is why it is
necessary to examine these protoforms very briefly, and then to successfully explain what is happening on their
basis. The framework in which the given study is placed has the following parameters – historically it concerns the
fashion of the 19th century, taking into account the revolutionary influence of the French Bourgeois Revolution, the
visual expression of the fashionable French women's suit, as well as the male business English suit is taken into
account. On the other hand, the most significant and successful fashion collections are examined in terms of
applying the implication and conceptual dimensions of the historical costume of the 19th century in the practice of
women's fashion designers at the beginning of the 21st century. The purpose of the study is most concentrated in
showing the transfer of the successful historical fashion decisions of the costume from the 19th century, which are
„noticed again” in the fashion costume at the beginning and the first decade of the 21st century – specifically in this
text 2004, with the key terms of implication and conceptual dimensions of 19th and 21st century fashion costume in
the most successful designer collections. As a researcher, my attention is drawn to the potential contained in the
implication of fashion costume, which is increasingly penetrating the artistic culture of designing and producing
fashion clothes and accessories. On the other hand, the wide consumption and strong influence of fashion on human
life impose the need not only for a philosophical or sociological analysis of the new phenomena of culture, but also
for a comprehensive and in-depth scientific-theoretical study of the implication in fashion, covered by postmodernist
ideas. The question arises: what are the reasons for individual achievements and finds of one era to be preserved and
carefully transferred to other eras, even at the risk of the re-contextualization of the image originally created and
embodied in clothing. Today, no one wears historical costumes just to protect themselves from the elements. The
historical costume and the fashion and artistic trends it embodies make it an expensive museum piece. One learns
from the taste of the old masters of clothing, from the combination of fabrics, colors and ornaments, from the ideas
that the modern person (whether professional or ordinary consumer) can draw from the found cultural artifacts in the
field of children's, women's fashion or the men's business suit.