• Attracting famous artists, photographers and other creative personalities to the
cooperation with couturiers in representative design practices. And most important is
the strengthening of the positions of these practices, expanding of their forms,
increasing of the influence on mass culture and design culture throughout the
20
th
century.
Generalization of the Scientific Discourse of Costume Research Analysis
Results. In the process of analysis of the available scientific sources, the latter were
systematized according to the subject of the research. It was found out that
clothes/costumes are studied the most in ethnography, in historical, philosophical,
cultural, and ontological scientific researches. Thanks to them, there is a detailed
picture of the development of forms of ethnic and historical costumes, the regularities
of their forming processes, the idea about traditional materials, manufacturing
techniques, and decorating in the context of the development of the material and artistic
culture of the mankind. Thus, clothing/costume is positioned as an item in its
evolutionary development. This allowed distinguishing the historical and cultural
level of their consideration as the most developed.
The functional level is another significant layer of knowledge about the clothing.
Within its limits, individual elements of costumes and their complexes are studied as
items created to provide an individual with comfort: physical, ergonomic,
psychological. Clothing as a material object is considered from the point of view of its
purpose, which determines the architectonics of costume forms, their structural
organization, compositional connections, as well as practicality, weariness, usefulness
of a particular item.
The design-technological level of the research positions clothes/costume as an
item realized in the material by various technical and technological means. Within its
limits, the processes, technologies, materials, regularities, and methods of forming a
costume are studied in detail.
It is established that there are researches which use a complex of knowledge of
different levels, but it is not the matter of an item anymore, but rather a matter of its
certain qualities. Such researches can be defined as sections of knowledge or a separate
aspect. The diversity of such studies is conventionally combined into figurative-
stylistic, semantic-symbolic and informative sections of knowledge about
clothes/costumes.
The figurative-stylistic section positions a costume as a subject of creative
activity, a work of art, an artefact. The range of problematic issues covers the
classification, components, basic elements, and patterns of occurrence, development,
and functioning of the costume style in the context of historical, economic, and socio-
cultural changes in human life. The following means of implementing a style in a
costume as a design object are of interest: artistic composition techniques, forming,
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