An Instance of Profanation or Innovation? Deconstructing Folk Costumes according to Folk Fashion Convention Cover Image

Profanacja czy innowacja? Dekonstrukcja stroju ludowego w konwencji folk fashion
An Instance of Profanation or Innovation? Deconstructing Folk Costumes according to Folk Fashion Convention

Author(s): Magdalena Toboła-Feliks
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: folk costumes; deconstructing tradition; folk fashion; cultural and religions studies;

Summary/Abstract: In the fashion world of today there appears an increasing number of projects whose overall theme are traditional folk costumes. On the one hand, designers embark upon representing folk costumes faithfully, yet on the other, only some reverberations are present in the “folk fashion” current, whose framework encompasses aleatoric associations of native patterns that compose a peculiar type of axiological mosaic. The foregoing constitutes a stimulus for cultural-imbued creativity, while concurrently being an alternative for mass production. In many cases, attempts to resuscitate tradition translate into space for re-interpreting it, the ramification of which is, in turn, a challenging research area for contemporary ethnology and cultural anthropology.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 63-76
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish