Ilustrația de modă și idealul de frumusețe.
Fashion illustration and the ideal of beauty.

Aesthetics and stylistics

Summary/Abstract: From the perspective of fashion illustration, we considered it necessary to analyze the concept of the ideal of beauty, promoted throughout history, because its different canons of representation and norms of appreciation were also reflected in fashion illustration. The latter, as an image and means of transmitting stylistic and aesthetic information, can be studied both by filtering the category of beauty in general and the ideal of female beauty in particular, giving us new perspectives on interpretation and understanding of our subject. Thus we tried to make a foray into the history of the representation of the female body and its proportions, through a comparative analysis of the studies and theories expressed by H.R. Radian in The Book of Proportions, by Georges Vigarello in The History of the Body, by Rosemary Torre in The Feminine Ideal, by Umberto Eco in his book The History of Beauty, by Daniel James Cole, Nancy Deihl in The History of Modern Fashion from 1850, by Rebecca Arnold, in Fashion A Very Short Introduction, and in Desire and Anxiety Image and Morality in the Twentieth Century.

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